http://walkeastwood.org/planning-eastwood-garden/ Sustainable living in "The Village Within The City" Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://walkeastwood.org/planning-eastwood-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-780 Lonnie Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:46:22 +0000 http://walkeastwood.org/?p=598#comment-780 No, I have no critter or smell problems at all. I bring only vegetable matter from my house and then mix it about 50/50 with the chopped up leaves I made just for the purpose last fall. I keep the leaves in a plastic bag so they stay dry. It's surprising, but rotting vegetable matter doesn't smell much at all, and once it's mixed up with the leaves and rots a bit more, it just smells like the ground in a forest. I think that mixing it with the leaves makes it unsavory to the critters, too. More on that here: http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-keep-rodents-and-pests-out-of-compost.htm No, I have no critter or smell problems at all. I bring only vegetable matter from my house and then mix it about 50/50 with the chopped up leaves I made just for the purpose last fall. I keep the leaves in a plastic bag so they stay dry. It’s surprising, but rotting vegetable matter doesn’t smell much at all, and once it’s mixed up with the leaves and rots a bit more, it just smells like the ground in a forest. I think that mixing it with the leaves makes it unsavory to the critters, too. More on that here: http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-keep-rodents-and-pests-out-of-compost.htm

]]> http://walkeastwood.org/planning-eastwood-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-779 Christy Behnke Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:03:14 +0000 http://walkeastwood.org/?p=598#comment-779 Do you have critter or unsavory 'smells' issues having a compost pile in your yard? Do you have critter or unsavory ‘smells’ issues having a compost pile in your yard?

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