Making Compost

[kroberts2131]

Anyone here do it? I’ve read up a little here and there but curious if any of you all do? I have a couple old rubber maid totes I wouldn’t mind using to make some for next spring but curious if it’s worth it.

 

[rickm]

I save all my grass clipping and keep piling it up but dont add anything else to it, not the best and is slow but better than taking to landfill and paying to dispose of it.

 

[swampratt]

It is best to let it breath and turn it.
Slow process if you do not let air get to it and it will get very smelly.

 

[beardking]

I prefer to send my grass clippings to the City of Norman and let them compost them. If I decide I need the compost, I can get a truck bed full for $10 and I don't have to do the work required to compost it. :-)

 

[rickm]

Work there is work to it i just pile it up and when i need some start taking from bottom of pile and keep piling more new on the top, i use to keep a big pile and had a guy come and get all of it each year to put on his garden, but he got old and quit so i just piling it up for my own use.

 

[2busy]

I tried a couple of times but the Bermuda would take it over.

 

[kroberts2131]

I was just thinking about this in terms of improving my existing soil for next year. Can I just mix in my table scraps, like you would to a compost pile, over the winter and have similar results?

 

[HiredHand]

We do it. Between composting and recycling we’ve cut down on the amount of trash we (two adults) put on the curb each week. Most weeks we have a single 13L trash bag filled and it’s usually pretty light.

I don’t bag my lawn clippings either. Also, I have an electric wood chipper that I send most of the tree and woody shrub trimmings through.


https://extension.okstate.edu/programs/solid-waste-management/composting/

 

[turkeyrun]

Good for the garden.

Grass clippings
Newspaper, shredded
Kitchen scraps, veg trimmings, egg shells, coffee grounds. NO MEAT, GREASE, OIL.

 

[rickm]

I was just thinking about this in terms of improving my existing soil for next year. Can I just mix in my table scraps, like you would to a compost pile, over the winter and have similar results?

Yes mom use to throw everything but the kitchen sink and stove in her garden during the time there wasnt anything planted in a certain area and then till it under the next spring.