Ever wonder how much bio-waste your kitchen produces every day? start collecting it and you come to know the shocking amount, on average your household may produce around 1 - 3 cereal bowl of organic waste such as vegetables scrap, tea/coffee grounds, egg shells, old bread, fruit skin(banana skin), cooked rice etc, i bet it always would have been ended tossed into garbage bins!
We are maintaining roof garden from past 20 years for many years i used to dump Tea grounds every day in all the pots, but from past 3 years i went a step a head by putting kitchen waste into pots though not converting into compost but directly putting into pots such as scrap veggies, banana skin and other fruit pulp and nature was taking it coarse slowly by converting it into compost.
Now recently i added more to the waste list such as cooked items such as popcorns, breads, biscuits, cookies etc and started converting it to compost by adding a layer of waste and a layer of mud on newly added food scraps and let it stay for at-least a month.
How do i use this compost?
I have lots of plats on my terrace pots such as Rose, Egg plants, Chilli Plant, Spinach, Mint, Chapardha Avare kai( I Guess Butter Beans in English), Malabar spinach aka Basella alba(Bachele soppu in kannada) Tomato Plant etc and compost thus produced will be nutrient rich fertilizer for my pots.
below are some pics of my roof garden, did not clicked tomatoes, eggplant and butter bean since it has withered and end of its life cycle will upload once its been re-planted and in full green
We are maintaining roof garden from past 20 years for many years i used to dump Tea grounds every day in all the pots, but from past 3 years i went a step a head by putting kitchen waste into pots though not converting into compost but directly putting into pots such as scrap veggies, banana skin and other fruit pulp and nature was taking it coarse slowly by converting it into compost.
Now recently i added more to the waste list such as cooked items such as popcorns, breads, biscuits, cookies etc and started converting it to compost by adding a layer of waste and a layer of mud on newly added food scraps and let it stay for at-least a month.
How do i use this compost?
I have lots of plats on my terrace pots such as Rose, Egg plants, Chilli Plant, Spinach, Mint, Chapardha Avare kai( I Guess Butter Beans in English), Malabar spinach aka Basella alba(Bachele soppu in kannada) Tomato Plant etc and compost thus produced will be nutrient rich fertilizer for my pots.
below are some pics of my roof garden, did not clicked tomatoes, eggplant and butter bean since it has withered and end of its life cycle will upload once its been re-planted and in full green
Chilli Plant
Mint Plant
Kitchen Waste (Carrot and Onion scrap and Tea Ground)
Spinach (Kanchee Soppu: Kannada, Kanchi Kuraku Telugu)
What are the kitchen waste that can be used for compost?
Do:
All vegetable and fruit scraps, Tea or coffee grounds, breads, biscuits, cookies, cooked and uncooked rice remains, egg shells etc
Dont's:
Avoid Meat, Fish, Bones, Dairy products, Oily Remains such as high fat snacks, though these are also bio-degradable they take lot of time to get compost and also they are smelly.
What are the Methods to convert kitchen waste to organic fertilizer?
There are lot of tutorial on YouTube and step by step methods explained in blogs just Google for "Home Composting Kitchen Waste" you get tons of videos and web search, see the above video for one of the method and if you are already doing this then share your experience and method followed here.
Do:
All vegetable and fruit scraps, Tea or coffee grounds, breads, biscuits, cookies, cooked and uncooked rice remains, egg shells etc
Dont's:
Avoid Meat, Fish, Bones, Dairy products, Oily Remains such as high fat snacks, though these are also bio-degradable they take lot of time to get compost and also they are smelly.
What are the Methods to convert kitchen waste to organic fertilizer?
There are lot of tutorial on YouTube and step by step methods explained in blogs just Google for "Home Composting Kitchen Waste" you get tons of videos and web search, see the above video for one of the method and if you are already doing this then share your experience and method followed here.
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