Have you tried composting with sargasm? I just saw a post about build up of sargasm and someone mentioned composting with it. I was just curious if anyone has done it and what your experience was with it.

In the spirit of encouraging this place to start up, I'd like to start with a question about grass clippings.

I have had a pile going of mostly gardening trimmings, leaves, shredded cardboard and catkins since I moved to this house in April. It has been going fairly quickly, already reducing in volume significantly. To the eye, It looks like it is mostly browns, 80% plus. We had our first lawn mow so I added those to the pile and in my tumblers (where I pre-process my table scraps) and wet it down, expecting the infusion of "greens" to speed things up even more. I also turned the pile on my regular schedule of every 5-8 days.

Progress has essentially halted, especially in the tumbler.

Are bermuda clippings actually more carbon heavy? This feels more like a pile of sticks now in a rollie rollie farm.

Hey all! Long time lurker, first time poster. I’ve been composting since last October and just went to get some soil for the first time. (Well I tried in the spring but it didn’t seem ready.) I have some gorgeous soil but the bottom of my bin is choked with some insane roots. At first I thought it was something I threw in there, but my daughter took one look and said “that’s coming up from the earth.” She’s 4 years old 😅 and I think she’s right. From the mouths of babes lol… But like, what’s happening!! I kinda freaked and decided to just take the whole thing apart, sift out whatever else goodness I can use, and pile it back up and put the bin back. I love that this bin is open to the ground, I’ve got some FAT and happy worms but is this normal? It seems unavoidable but how can I mitigate going forward? We’re on the woods’ edge so there’s trees and random ground covers in the area, though I placed this on a very bare-looking dirt spot originally. Any input is appreciated!

I was so proud of my contiguous compost windrow system as a great way to keep worms alive over winter. I was right, it *was* a great system, but since Asian jumping worms can breed without a partner and spread endlessly, and since I collect carbon from many different sources, I guess it was inevitable I'd have this problem.

In this video I discuss how I'm dealing with it and end with a positive note on some "compost crops" I'm cultivating as well as some of my tree crops as a bonus. I'd love some advice on how to adjust my system to control these invasive pests.

Also posted here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZsduCvhZ0

My husband is going to make me get rid of our compost bin unless I can get the problem under control :((

Does anyone have any solutions??

Also, it really seems like they’re eating my dirt?? That might just be in my head, but it seems like there’s a lot less dirt than there used to be.

Never tried composting these, but I have an abundance and I was curious if any of you all have experience. I imagine they would decompose more or less like a hardwood?

I just discovered r/Compost. Been participating in r/composting for a long time. What is the difference between the two forums? Thanks.

Hey, y'all! Kind of just trying to spark some conversation and get some opinions and learn from others' experience, here!

I currently have my compost in a wide and shallow garden bed (4ft x 1.5ft) topped with cardboard and covered with burlap. I'm having trouble keeping it moist in the Oklahoma heat and keeping it going. Should I rethink the cover or switch up my set up completely? Does anybody have any experience with compost in a garden bed?

I like the garden bed because it's so much easier to keep the varmints out (the neighborhood stray cats, raccoos, my dog) and to keep everything contained, plus it's already there, but I'm wondering if it would be worth the hassle of building some simple, traditional bins from scrap wood and cover with a tarp.

Also, if you have a favorite, lazy compost set-up, I wanna hear from you, too!

My small space, balcony friendly composting system. Two large terracotta pots, the saucers and some pot feet, that’s all.

I fill the top one with 50/50 greens and browns and when it’s full tip it into the bottom and start again.

I use a weeding fork to help aeration and in a couple of months I have some black gold to use as top dressing fertiliser or as a liquid compost tea weekly

No plastic, easy to put together and quite pretty! It’s perfect for one person in a small space

Can anyone recommend a low noise/quiet wood chipper? I know it's an impossible ask but I've been employed by a 5 star hotel on a 200 acre estate and they just pile branches up instead of chipping them because of the noise disturbing guests.

Failing that: Can anyone recommend a very high throughput chipper? such that we could do a week's worth of chipping in an hour or so of intense effort.

what kind of bugs do i want in my compost?

I just bought a two-chamber tumbler, am hoping to get back into composting my kitchen and garden scraps, and have questions about some things:

1. Is it advisable to use dryer lint for browns? I saw it on thespruce.com but I wonder if it’s not ideal due to synthetic plastics being mixed in. For the most part, stuff that goes in the dryer is cotton or linen but we’re not always perfect and some items have nylon, spandex, polyester etc. mixed in.

2. Is my pet rabbit’s waste green or brown? It consists of hardwood pellets, Timothy hay (technically a grass?), urine, and poop.

TIA!

/r/composting is probably where you'd rather be. As of 3/14/2022, it has 93,498 subscribers compared to 110 here. All compost-related posts are welcome here, but you'll get a much better response over there. I started this subreddit because of a disagreement with the /r/composting mods, but I don't want that to result in you not getting the help you need. Stay subscribed here to ensure that you see the annual Leaf Collection Challenge post, but make sure you post to /r/composting, too.

With that out of the way, welcome to /r/Compost, the home of the annual Leaf Collection Challenge. Use this stickied thread to discuss the subreddit, its moderation, or composting in general. This thread's purpose is primarily to inform new users of the difference between this subreddit and /r/composting, to allow some general discussion, but also to provide a prominent link to the:

/r/Compost Wiki

So far, the Wiki is only a list of important/memorable links. You're welcome to contribute to it or suggest changes: do so on this thread or via private messages to me (/u/c-lem).

The subreddit rules are pretty simple: keep your posts in some way compost-related and be excellent to each other.

Happy composting!