There are plenty of things in your kitchen that can be used for composting. Things like leftover foods and plant debris contain a lot of nutrients that can help your garden plants grow healthy and strong. To create your own garden soil using your kitchen leftovers, you should have good bin and a proven formula for mixing compost.
It is very important to have a reliable composting bin especially if you want to compost indoors. To get started, all you need is a good recycling bin where you can keep your kitchen leftover. Moreover, leaving your leftover food on the open will attract rodents and other insects so unless you want rats running around your backyard, you better keep your compost materials covered. No, you need not buy an expensive recycling bin for your home composting project. A cheap but reliable bin with a snug cover is all you need to get started.
After getting your recycling bin, put your bin at the back of your house and start filling it with compost materials from your kitchen. Try to fill your bin with a variety of green and brown waste from your kitchen. According to experts, what you put inside your composting bin will determine the kind of garden soil that you will get so for your home composting project, make sure that you include green stuff like left over tea leaves, coffee grounds, leftover fruits and vegetables, plant remains and the likes are good sources of nitrogen in your compost.
When it comes to brown waste, be sure to add your leftover cereals, stale bread, cardboard and cardboard tubes into your home composting bin. You may also add used paper towels, paper bags and eggs shells into your compost. Just make sure that you do not use too much of these things in your compost. Paper bags, paper towels and eggshells take some time to decompose so there is a big possibility that they things will as fast as the rest of the stuff inside the big. Once your bin is filled, seal it to keep insects and rodents out.
Turning the garbage inside your bin at least twice a week is very important to hasten the composting process. For hygiene reasons, wear a mask and gloves when you turn the pile especially during the first few weeks. Use a stick to turn the garbage and do not handle the garbage with your hands. You don’t really want to expose yourself to the stink.