Beauty Farming Life

We have not started our compost pile yet, hope to do that soon, but I've been doing some research so that I can learn more about it ahead of time and I thought I'd share that in a series of articles about composting. When you get ready to start, there are decisions that need to be made when you get ready to throw away trash.  Does it just go to the regular trash?  Or the recycle bin?  Or, can you put it in your compost pile? I would think that most of the time it will be fairly obvious, but since I'm going to be new to composting, I wondered what should NOT go into the the soon to be compost bin?  I found the following information to be very helpful: Typical Home Compost Bin Breads - All types of bread products, including cakes, pasta and baked goods, should not go into the pile because they can attract pests. Cooking Oils  - Another kitchen item that should go into the trash bin instead of the compost ...

Since I didn't get to mow a couple of weeks ago because of rain, it had been two weeks and the grass was tall. As I mowed, I noticed lots of clippings being left behind.  I know they are good for compost but as we don't have compost set up yet, I was wondering what to do with it.  I thought I had remembered hearing once that leaving them on the lawn was good for it? Does anyone know for sure?  With about 3 acres of space that I regularly mow, I have too much to bag up and even when we do have a compost bin, it will be too much to put it all in there every week.  So what do you all do?  Do you rake it up?  Do you just leave it where it lays and let it decompose back into the grass and soil?  Thanks for any advice!