Ruth Stout style composting (2 spots) - PEP BB gardening.sand.RuthStout

Thanks, a few more pics of scraps and pics of burying them should do the trick.  

Justyn Mavis wrote:I have a few Ruth Stout Garden Plots through the land. 1. Is at the educational lab, and the others in the gardening zone. Below are pictures of adding food scraps to the educational lab stops. Included in the pictures of 1gal buckets, 5 gal pails.

Here is an update from today. These are both 5gal pails. This is my field Ruth Stout Rows.

Since it is impossible for me to accumulate 10 gallons of kitchen scraps, I will do this in chunks.  In order to not spend weeks doing this to find out I'm doing it wrong I'd like some early input.  I see from the directions that I need to include a picture of the bucket next to the hole, which I didn't remember when I was out there.

The area in question.  If you look closely you'll see the reason why I'm starting over in this area.



A 2.5 gallon bucket with kitchen scraps.  Its not completely full so let's call it 2 gallons.



Dug a hole:



Put scraps in the hole:


Covered the hole back up:



Is that the right track? Thank you.

You're on the right track Rob! You don't even have to dig a hole as long as you cover the surface with some form of mulch.

Yup, and when you do want to post it, please put all the photos in one post so that the approver only has to look through your stuff once.

Because I live alone I can't gather ten gallons of kitchen scraps at one time.  So I have broken it up into five segments.  You will see that each time there is a 2.5 gallon bucket with 2 gallons of scraps in it.  Each time I made a hole in the existing mulch, added in the bucket, then recovered it with mulch.