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Old 12-04-2006, 03:58 PM   #9
chrisinhouston
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Houston TX
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While I can't imagine watching composting food scraps at the dining table, my kitchen is compost friendly. In fact I can't remember the last time we used the garbage disposal. In my kitchen at the back of my sink I have a large 12 qt bowl fitted with an old wok lid. Into the bowl goes every kind of vegetable or fruit peeling or cut off bits, flower trimings, stale bread and even old dried up bits of cheese. Once and awhile I've seen a few fruit flies in the summer but it doesn't smell or attract any other critters. Every few days it is taken out to the compost pen next to my vegetable garden which also gets a steady supply of grass clippings, leaves and other garden waste.

In the spring I undo one side of the compost pen and rake it all into the vegetable garden which is then tilled and planted.

I consider this a form of carbon credit to make up for the fact I'm still driving a car with pretty bad gas mileage!
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