| The reason most people need to keep container | | | | What do you put in your compost container? |
| gardens is because they don't have the room, | | | | Start with yard clippings such as grass and shrubs |
| backyard or dirt space for full-fledged gardens. | | | | and cut-offs and dead leaves from houseplants and |
| Because of that, many people also don't have the | | | | flowers. You can also add most of your kitchen |
| luxury of keeping a full-size compost bin for creating | | | | scraps, like egg shells, coffee grounds, vegetable and |
| the best potting and compost mixes for their plants | | | | fruit peels and scraps. Lining a small bucket or |
| or flowers. A container compost bin or bucket is just | | | | container with a plastic bag will not only reduce the |
| the answer to those with space problems. | | | | chance of smelling up your kitchen, but will make |
| Most people don't realize that roughly 30% of waste | | | | using the compost easier when it is ready. |
| from residential and apartment homes comes from | | | | There are a number of items that you don't want to |
| the kitchen or the yard and ends up in county landfills. | | | | add to your compost container, such as meat scraps, |
| Much of that waste is organic matter than can be | | | | bones or fish parts. Avoid tossing in any types of |
| converted into compost for gardening purposes. Even | | | | fatty foods like cheeses, butters or salad dressing or |
| though you don't have a huge vegetable or flower | | | | other oils. Never toss in animal wastes or plants that |
| garden doesn't mean that you can't take advantage | | | | look diseased or may be infested with pests, nor |
| of even a small compost bin to help "green" the | | | | weeds. |
| environment around you. | | | | People that keep container gardens generally don't |
| Using a regular metal bucket or trash can with a lid | | | | have the room, backyard or dirt space for |
| will work for a container garden size compost supply, | | | | full-fledged gardens. Since they keep container |
| as will any number of plastic or woods bins and | | | | gardens, these people don't have the luxury of |
| containers that you can purchase from your local | | | | keeping a full-size compost bin. A container compost |
| gardening center or home improvement store. Such | | | | bin or bucket is just the answer to those with space |
| containers don't take up a lot of space and can sit in | | | | problems. |
| a corner of your patio, balcony or yard. | | | | Copyright © Larry Gildea, All Rights Reserved. |