Comments on: Composting: A green solution to household waste http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/ Your online simplicity village Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:07:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dori Fritzinger http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Dori Fritzinger Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:14:38 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/#comment-396 I have always thrown my coffee grinds, grapefruit peels, orange peels, lemon peels, and lime peels in my compost and have plentiful worms. Maybe it depends on the ph of the soil to start with. I have always thrown my coffee grinds, grapefruit peels, orange peels, lemon peels, and lime peels in my compost and have plentiful worms. Maybe it depends on the ph of the soil to start with.

]]> By: Dori Fritzinger http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Dori Fritzinger Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:12:01 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/#comment-395 Strange as it sounds - I did mean lime as in the fruit. This goes for all citrus fruits worms do not like them and a garden with plenty of worms is a good thing. "Earthworms can be fed all forms of food waste, yard & garden waste, (plant and root material are OK but not too much dirt), paper and cardboard too wet to recycle otherwise, etc. Do not feed them; metals, foils, plastics, chemicals, oils, solvents, insecticides, soaps, paint, etc. Avoid all citrus products (oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit), onions, garlic cloves, extremely hot and heavily spiced foods, and high acid foods." http://www.co.pasquotank.nc.us/departments/recycle/compost/composting%20webpage/Composting%20and%20Grasscycling%20Made%20Easy.htm Strange as it sounds – I did mean lime as in the fruit. This goes for all citrus fruits worms do not like them and a garden with plenty of worms is a good thing.

“Earthworms can be fed all forms of food waste, yard & garden waste, (plant and root material are OK but not too much dirt), paper and cardboard too wet to recycle otherwise, etc. Do not feed them; metals, foils, plastics, chemicals, oils, solvents, insecticides, soaps, paint, etc. Avoid all citrus products (oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit), onions, garlic cloves, extremely hot and heavily spiced foods, and high acid foods.”

http://www.co.pasquotank.nc.us/departments/recycle/compost/composting%20webpage/Composting%20and%20Grasscycling%20Made%20Easy.htm

]]> By: Weedlady http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Weedlady Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:35:46 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/#comment-393 LIMES top the "do not compost" list??? Limes as in citrus fruit? Ok, agreed, I do not add ANY citrus to my piles either for a couple of reasons, but I have a feeing the author of the article meant to say that the agricultural lime such as that we use directly on lawns & gardens should not be added to compost containing fresh manure as it reacts chemically with the nitrogen, driving it off as ammonia, thuis losing some of the nnutrients. This made me chuckle since at a composting workshop given by my master gardening group one woman in attendance did actually think the speaker meant limes, the fruit, so she asked if it was OK to add lemons! LOL LIMES top the “do not compost” list??? Limes as in citrus fruit? Ok, agreed, I do not add ANY citrus to my piles either for a couple of reasons, but I have a feeing the author of the article meant to say that the agricultural lime such as that we use directly on lawns & gardens should not be added to compost containing fresh manure as it reacts chemically with the nitrogen, driving it off as ammonia, thuis losing some of the nnutrients.
This made me chuckle since at a composting workshop given by my master gardening group one woman in attendance did actually think the speaker meant limes, the fruit, so she asked if it was OK to add lemons! LOL

]]> By: kansaskaren http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-391 kansaskaren Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:03:14 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/02/21/green-solution-to-household-waste/#comment-391 Hey, loved this article!! Finally, something written in terms that a relative newb can understand. I had a compost pile going last year, but for whatever reason, it didn't work out. Now, I'm ready to give it another go. Thanks!! Hey, loved this article!! Finally, something written in terms that a relative newb can understand. I had a compost pile going last year, but for whatever reason, it didn’t work out.

Now, I’m ready to give it another go.

Thanks!!

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