I have a small patio area that belongs to me and I can do anything I darn please with it...however, reasonably, I can't use the space for a regular compost pile. I recalled reading years ago about winter composting in black plastic garbage bags.
This morning I went through my garden area and pulled up some dieing plants and trimmed my tomato plants so that whatever green tomatoes on there would ripen that more easily. I now have a nice, but small, pile of compostible material. My plan is to use that plus whatever else I collect before snowfall and kitchen veggie garbage to a 30 to 40 gal black pastic garbage bag. Add couple tablespoons of nitrogen (I have bloodmeal), 1 cup lime (which I need to buy), 1 quart water, shake it up, close tightly and store in my basement for the winter. Next spring I'll have a nice bag of compost. Perhaps I will create additional bags with kitchen veggie scraps over the next few months and perhaps I'll be able to gather up leaves from my front yard.
Cool, eh?
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Very cool BUT you will have bugs. Those little nats (they are on the vegetables) will multiply in the bags and create little worms that will turn into bugs and the cycle will continue all winter. It would be best to put some worms in the bags and let them do the work. By spring you will have some nice compost.
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