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

Aurora House wrote:So starting the long slog to getting 10 gallons.
1 qt moldy pasta sauce & 1 qt homemade chicken broth that hid in the back of the fridge till scary.

Next in the long slog, I had a piece of salmon & my homemade yogurt go bad. HUSP has planting a fish under your 3 sisters. But I have bold racoons so 90% of this post's effort is so they don't say "OMG! Their serving Salmon here!" The hole is deep so it's inconvenient to dig for, and the yogurt and manure are to disguise the smell. And then I took a dead native blackberry Vine that tried to Trip me and added it to one of the layers filling the hole as a deterrent. The rain rinse of the yogurt Crock started flowing away from the hole so as I saw rocks in the dirt I was replacing I lined the downhill side to slow the water and make it harder to carve a drainage channel. Then I could put the straw that is mulching half my yard back.

For Ruth Stout composting the compost has to be placed on the ground and covered by mulch.  Not buried.  Sorry about your racoon...

Welp, we go through an awful lot of bananas & eggs; as well as many other fruits & veggies, including pumpkin and celery tops.

My buckets both needed to be tamped down a bit so I wouldn’t sprinkle scraps all through the property, and if I saved anymore scraps at one time it would have definitely gotten very gross… this is my new favorite way to compost.

We’re pretty much putting down mulch accross our entire front two acres so I barely even open up the ground; just find an already uneven divot, toss it in, then throw fresh mulch over top… ultra lazy, it’s great.

Aurora House wrote:

Aurora House wrote:So starting the long slog to getting 10 gallons.
1 qt moldy pasta sauce & 1 qt homemade chicken broth that hid in the back of the fridge till scary.

Next in the long slog, I had a piece of salmon & my homemade yogurt go bad. HUSP has planting a fish under your 3 sisters. But I have bold racoons so 90% of this post's effort is so they don't say "OMG! Their serving Salmon here!" The hole is deep so it's inconvenient to dig for, and the yogurt and manure are to disguise the smell. And then I took a dead native blackberry Vine that tried to Trip me and added it to one of the layers filling the hole as a deterrent. The rain rinse of the yogurt Crock started flowing away from the hole so as I saw rocks in the dirt I was replacing I lined the downhill side to slow the water and make it harder to carve a drainage channel. Then I could put the straw that is mulching half my yard back.

Maybe a pex could be identify problem animal (wildlife, LGD ect) and steps modifying Ruth stout to work for your situation. Several of the later holes starting picture shows an earlier hole disturbed by animals.

To document your completion of the BB, provide the following:
 - a photo of the bucket of kitchen scraps next to the opened mulch
 - a photo of the empty bucket and the new mound of mulch
 - repeat for second bucket
 - describe the volume of your bucket(s) and how full they were

Just chilling at wheaton, doing the BB20 free event.  I put up a sign saying I wanted to use all the food scraps from the fisher Price house for this BB.  We filled up 2 3 gallon buckets at the Fisher Price house and then I went to Cooper Cabin and got 2 more buckets that needed to be composted there as well.   I put them under mulch on hugels at FP house and at Allerton Abbey.  It was about 11 gallons of scraps as the 2 buckets from cooper cabin were just a tad smaller.

wayne fajkus wrote:10 gallons of kitchen scraps  is a lot to accumulate at 1 time (couple, no kids) without it souring.  Any considerations to lower that?  I would have to freeze it.

My daughter-in-law, who lives in an apartment, freezes her scraps in a gallon Ziploc until it's full, then brings them over to feed her chickens that live at my house. I'm sure that would work for you, as well, and the gallon bag makes measuring convenient.

Laurie Burton wrote:

wayne fajkus wrote:10 gallons of kitchen scraps  is a lot to accumulate at 1 time (couple, no kids) without it souring.  Any considerations to lower that?  I would have to freeze it.

My daughter-in-law, who lives in an apartment, freezes her scraps in a gallon Ziploc until it's full, then brings them over to feed her chickens that live at my house. I'm sure that would work for you, as well, and the gallon bag makes measuring convenient.

the problem is feed chickens- I'm doing the same thing with all my plant based waist given to my bunnies but this meens that the little meat contaminated waist is taking forever to get 10 gal. add to that that I have racoons and other pests digging up where I place it Ruth Stout doesn't work for me.

I generated over 10 gallons of compost over the last week. 3 buckets (about 2 gallon buckets, I believe) I dumped under mulch on the massive hugel beds at Wheaton Labs. 2 more buckets (and a bowl) , I dumped at home, under flakes of straw in my flower garden. All of the buckets were full, so I would say the buckets dumped are well over 10 gallons!

Joshua Comer wrote:I leave mine in a bucket with holes outside to accumulate. In the summer black soldier flies break it down before I can fill it.

I do the same thing: take a decrepit bucket that already has holes in it from being repurposed from a good ancient plastic bucket to a planter for thai peppers or matts wild cherry tomato that is starting to crack up the sides, place
Dog poo
Which Constable Tonto provides in copious quantities
Place it in the hill on the down side of the tiles bed
And leave it for three years
The flies dont get it
But it breaks down naturally
Then I feed the trees with the buckets
I just place them in rows so I rotate properly
Same idea though smellier compost !