Whoa, quite a load here. Hi, I’m Ed Bruske with DC Urban Gardeners and we’re here in my garden around my back deck in the District of Columbia talking about composting. And what you just saw me do is empty out the handy little bin that we use in our kitchen that can like, collect kitchen scraps. You do the plant a great big favor and your garden a favor, by taking the things you normally throw out of the kitchen, kitchen scraps, from your food preparation and composting them instead.
Did you know that at least twenty five percent of everything we send to the landfill is kitchen scraps like this? And they could be recycled instead, that would save a lot of energy for everybody and make some of that gardener’s gold that does us so much good for your garden. Well some, what do you see here, my daughter is having a lemonade stand in the last couple of days so you see a lot of lemon peels but also some greens, from salad we’ve been preparing. Oh, there’s a filter with coffee grounds in it, yep, they’re with coffee grounds are very god for composting. A banana peel, some cabbage leaves, paper towels, yes paper towels can be compost too. Anything that was ever alive at one point, paper towels come from trees, so they, they are organic and they can be composted.
Some other things from around the house that you can compost that you might not have thought of, here, pair of old underwear, my wife said get rid of them, so I took the elastic band off the underwear, I cut it up into pieces, that’s one hundred percent cotton, organic, that can be composted. This here is dryer lint, comes from the clothes, it can be composted. This shredded cardboard sometimes, when I want to take out my aggressions, I take them out on a cardboard box, and I just rip the box up into pieces. Since it’s a forest product as well, it can be composted. That’s, some of that good brown material if you’ve ran out of leaves than you can put in your compost pile. This here, did you get junk mail? Do you have a paper shredder? We do, we shred all of our personal documents and they can go right into the compost heap as well as news paper, you may recycle your newspaper but if you’re looking for brown stuff to put in your compost pile, tear the newspapers up and put them in your compost instead. So those are just a few of the things that, from around the house, there’ an orange peel, that you can compost. Get a container like this, they make them even nicer than that, ceramic or stainless steel to collect your compost scraps in. take them out to your compost heap, dig a nice big hole down into the compost and bury them really well in the compost. But there are some things that you should not compost and we’re going to talk about those, next.
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