The Endzone Garden Thread

[82_VOL_83]

No, we save up the kitchen waste and fling it on the compost pile out back, with the leaves, grass clippings, garden waste etc. I don’t give up counter space without a fight.

Do you use one?

Thinking about getting one but would like to talk to someone with first hand experience.

 

[Behr]

Thinking about getting one but would like to talk to someone with first hand experience.

Why? Serious question. I just Googled and saw what you're NOT supposed to put in them. Seems like a pita for pretty much nothing.

 

[82_VOL_83]

Why? Serious question. I just Googled and saw what you're NOT supposed to put in them. Seems like a pita for pretty much nothing.

I haven't done my normal 9 months of research. So I think I will start with the what can't go in.

 

[Behr]

What should NOT go in Lomi:

• Hard bones (chicken, beef, pork, lamb)
• Cooking oils, grease, very greasy foods
• Fruit pits (avocados, peaches, apricots, nectarines, mango)
• Soaps, shampoo and conditioner bars
• Lined bags (chip, cookie, pet food)
• Soiled diapers, baby wipes
• Cigarettes
• Metal, plastic, glass
• Foil wrap
• Diapers, wipes, hygiene products
• Produce netting
• Styrofoam
• Pet waste
• Alcohol
• Pastes
• Walnut shells (toxic to plants, contain chemical called juglone)

 

[bigorangewildcat]

No, we save up the kitchen waste and fling it on the compost pile out back, with the leaves, grass clippings, garden waste etc. I don’t give up counter space without a fight.

Do you use one?

Coffee grounds and banana peels are good too.

 

[VolNExile]

What should NOT go in Lomi:

• Hard bones (chicken, beef, pork, lamb)
• Cooking oils, grease, very greasy foods
• Fruit pits (avocados, peaches, apricots, nectarines, mango)
• Soaps, shampoo and conditioner bars
• Lined bags (chip, cookie, pet food)
• Soiled diapers, baby wipes
• Cigarettes
• Metal, plastic, glass
• Foil wrap
• Diapers, wipes, hygiene products
• Produce netting
• Styrofoam
• Pet waste
• Alcohol
• Pastes
• Walnut shells (toxic to plants, contain chemical called juglone)

I guess the lawyers made them add that. It’s pretty much anything you don’t add to a compost pile.

The Lomi looks like it would make sense for someone in an apartment, or who otherwise doesn’t have access to a spot outside. But for me, $499 would buy an awful lot of Fancy Dirt for future garden beds.

By the way, properly “built” (meaning the mixture of stuff, not barrels or chicken wire, etc.) compost doesn’t smell. Too much “greens” (high nitrogen waste) will start to decompose anaerobically, meaning slimy and smelly. Too much “browns” (high carbon waste) just sits there. The right balance between greens and browns, turned periodically to get O2 in the mix, gets it cooking nicely.

We just have two piles. No barrels, etc.

 

[Tin Man]

My compost bin is a dark colored 50 gallon trash can with holes drilled into it.

 

[Behr]

I guess the lawyers made them add that. It’s pretty much anything you don’t add to a compost pile.

The Lomi looks like it would make sense for someone in an apartment, or who otherwise doesn’t have access to a spot outside. But for me, $499 would buy an awful lot of Fancy Dirt for future garden beds.

By the way, properly “built” (meaning the mixture of stuff, not barrels or chicken wire, etc.) compost doesn’t smell. Too much “greens” (high nitrogen waste) will start to decompose anaerobically, meaning slimy and smelly. Too much “browns” (high carbon waste) just sits there. The right balance between greens and browns, turned periodically to get O2 in the mix, gets it cooking nicely.

We just have two piles. No barrels, etc.

Seems like a pita.

 

[VolNExile]

Seems like a pita.

Eh, no more so than creating a new recipe, maybe. You have an idea of what you want it to look like, and you adjust as necessary to get the right combination.

Of course, a pitchfork isn’t generally used in cooking.

- unless you’re talking about a pita bread sammich or something.

 

[VolNExile]

My compost bin is a dark colored 50 gallon trash can with holes drilled into it.

Do you roll it around the yard periodically to mix?

 

[Tin Man]

Do you roll it around the yard periodically to mix?

Pitchfork the contents ~weekly.

 

[Orangeslice13]

So I saw HCRD changing a sign and I rolled down my window and asked what they were doing with the old sign. They go to the metal recycling center so I asked if I could have it.

 

[Behr]

Eh, no more so than creating a new recipe, maybe. You have an idea of what you want it to look like, and you adjust as necessary to get the right combination.

Of course, a pitchfork isn’t generally used in cooking.

- unless you’re talking about a pita bread sammich or something.

Lol, I Wasn't trying to argue because I don't know anything about these contraptions, but okay...

You already said you don't have counter space. That would be a pita, especially if you lived in a small apartment, which I don't understand why someone in an apartment would benefit using one of these things, except for the obvious doing their part of saving the planet thing, but Tin Can uses, well, a Tin can. Lol.

I get your analogy with the recipe, good one btw, but I can't wrap my head around the rewards being equally satisfying.

But after putting this much thought into it, I've come to the conclusion that this is the perfect appliance for someone like 8283. He can put it right next to his pizza oven.

 

[VolNExile]

Lol, I Wasn't trying to argue because I don't know anything about these contraptions, but okay...

You already said you don't have counter space. That would be a pita, especially if you lived in a small apartment, which I don't understand why someone in an apartment would benefit using one of these things, except for the obvious doing their part of saving the planet thing, but Tin Can uses, well, a Tin can. Lol.

I get your analogy with the recipe, good one btw, but I can't wrap my head around the rewards being equally satisfying.

But after putting this much thought into it, I've come to the conclusion that this is the perfect appliance for someone like 8283. He can put it right next to his pizza oven.

Ahh, you were saying that the Lomi sounds like a pita. Agreed. I thought you meant the browns and greens and whatnot.

In terms of technology, our compost piles look an awful lot like piles of clothes on the closet floor.

 

[Tin Man]

So I saw HCRD changing a sign and I rolled down my window and asked what they were doing with the old sign. They go to the metal recycling center so I asked if I could have it.

The short bus gonna stop at your house, now?

 

[volkyries]

My wife composts in 5 gallon buckets with lids with holes drilled in them. She has 3 currently and rotates filling them and emptying them. Takes us about a week or so to fill one up and by then the first one is done. She rolls them around the yard to mix them and puts them upside down/right side up as well to mix.

 

[Behr]

My wife composts in 5 gallon buckets with lids with holes drilled in them. She has 3 currently and rotates filling them and emptying them. Takes us about a week or so to fill one up and by then the first one is done. She rolls them around the yard to mix them and puts them upside down/right side up as well to mix.

That's real nyce.

8283 wants to know why don't you have a Lomi?

 

[GordonC]

So I saw HCRD changing a sign and I rolled down my window and asked what they were doing with the old sign. They go to the metal recycling center so I asked if I could have it.

hoping this does lead to a situation that would make a good Trailer Park Boys episode

 

[volkyries]

That's real nyce.

8283 wants to know why don't you have a Lomi?

I am way too tight to spend $499 on something like that. 3 $5 buckets, sure, but that...nope.

 

[Orangeslice13]

^^^^^who da F***?!?

 

[Orangeslice13]

That's real nyce.

8283 wants to know why don't you have a Lomi?

My compost is redneck.
Cinder block and scrap wood.
2 sides. Add side and turn side.

 

[Orangeslice13]

 

[GordonC]

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needs moppin', all of it
@volkyries

 

[volkyries]

needs moppin', all of it
@volkyries

We had a setup like that at our old house but it seems to take longer that way. The buckets in full sunlight work a lot faster it seems especially in the summer. They can be a bit slower in the winter when it is cool/cold.

 

[volkyries]

^^^^^who da F***?!?

who me?