[canuckgal]

...regarding worms. I have seen the thread below. Do you do this all year....I would rather not traps out to the backyard in our winters. Also, what do you do with your garbage that you can't compost...eg: meat, dairy, etc. I do the blue bin for the newspaper, cardboard, etc. Just picturing maybe having a very small garbage can in the kitchen, then this goes to a curbside pail??? Our curbside can stays in the garage...it would probably get smelly by garbage day.

Any suggestions?

 

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

Yes, I compost all year round. I'm in Canada too (northern BC) so it's frozen with several feet of snow for a few months. In the winter I use a bigger bucket inside so I don't have to empty it every day. You know if there's a raging blizzard outside. I don't have a worm bin though, just a regular outside compost bin. The compost doesn't break down when it's too cold so I need to have a bin big enough to hold several months worth of kitchen scraps. The freezing and thawing though seems to help everything break down very quickly once spring comes. Many people who have worm bins keep them indoors during the winter. The worms stay active and you don't have to go outside to feed them.

Leftover meat scraps go to the dog at our house. We recycle what we can and everything else goes in the garbage. Yes it does get smelly but it would anyway even if we weren't recycling and composting.

 

[ChaoticMum]

I compost with worms all year. They stay indoors in a Rubbermaid tote - i have two actually that I've worked a system out with. If you put them outside in a Canadian winter they'll freeze and die as the worms I have are originally native to California I believe....

I have no odor from mine as long as its well balanced with my wet and dry stuff. I keep shredded paper around to toss in with the food scraps to keep the balance and I mix it regularly.

I do put my meat/dairy into my regular garbage, but the worms will eat breads, egg shells (crushed) and all other scraps.

 

[Llyra]

Our worm composting system stays indoors. It's in our laundry room, in closed Rubbermaid plastic containers painted black. You have to be careful not to overload the system to prevent odors, but that's easy enough to do. I keep a small covered bucket near the kitchen sink, and empty it into the bins once or twice a day as needed. We also have a composting system in our garden with punctured pots half-sunk into the ground, with lids.

What our compost system can't handle goes into the compost heap at our church.

Non-compostables go in the kitchen trash-- a bin for metal/plastic/glass, one for paper, and one for other trash. Those go out nightly.

 

[koofie]

My bin stays in the garage. i keep a compost crock on the counter, and only empty it 2x per week. The crock has a cork, so the funk stays in

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Lots of the scraps go to the dogs. Some day I want one of these for all that other stuff: http://www.naturemill.com/products.html

 

[99lauren]

We keep our meat trash in a bag in the freezer. It goes out with the trash on trash day. No stinkies in our garbage!
We recycle so much that we only have a full bag of trash about once a month.
HTH!