Ash's Ruth Stout Composting BB Pics [Log]

This thread is my attempt to document my Ruth Stout Composting BB that will result in a cleaner, single post in the BB thread.

The reason: I generate small amounts of kitchen scraps at a time. It's measured in cups, not gallons. Doing this BB as the only adult living at the house I'm renting was a matter of months, not days. In future, I'll create and post to such a personal-BB-thread ongoing, as opposed to all at once. I hope to develop a repeatable process to document some of the more involved BB's that exist in SkIP.

The BB requirements: 2 Spots, 5 Gallons of Scraps each.

5 gallons = 78.86 cups. I use 6 cup containers for scraps. That means I need 13.14 containers of scraps placed at each spot. I'll round up to 15, just to make it a slam dunk. (15x6-cup containers = 5.70 gallons).

Here we go!

(BTW, this is not in any way a negative comment at anyone who's done their BB all in the BB thread. Y'all are awesome. This is partly for my own sanity, and because there's some higher-level BB's that involve documenting a year (or more) of work, and paths to adequately document things at that scale will be needed).

I was in the same boat!  Two gallons at a time.  Even that was thwarted several times by kitchen scrap predators.

In fair Verona, where we lay our compost,

The two spots are in the backyard.

Spot #1, Containers 1,2,3,4

Spot 1, Containers 5, 6, 7, (yes, there might be enough for an 8th. Consider it the thirteenth roll in a baker's dozen)

Spot 1, Containers/Equivalent 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Spot #2, Containers/Equivalents 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Spot #2, Container 9

Spot #2, Containers 10, 11, 12 (and a bit more lagniappe)

Spot #1, Containers 13, 14, 15 (Done! Including both over-estimate and lagniappe)

Spot #2, Containers 13, 14, 15