Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:44 am
Hi Newbie here, I am a landlord and have two composting questions. Because of a request from a tenant I have been providing 'composting services' in that outside I have provided a medium size composting container that is inaccessible to 'night life', yet has a great number of 1/4" holes in it for airflow. The container is 3 cubic feet in size. She has coffee grinds, possibly egg shells and a great amount of vegetable and fruit scraps because for some reason about a half of what she buys, she ends up discarding. So there is a goodly amount of volume. But I digress... All of the scraps are put in a pretty 'bio-degradable' plastic looking bags, and then they are placed in the composting container.
After 4 months of a warm winter, the containers continue to hold these pretty bags and are not decomposing and inside the bags there is not a lot of breakdown. My opinion is that the composting process is not happening fast enough. I suggested to my tenant that she place her scraps directly in the container to speed up the process. That does not work for her.
Question 1: Would the composting process go quicker without the biodegradable bags?
Question 2: Once I have fully composted matter, can I use it around the property, around plants and small trees without it attracting rodents? If the answer is no then maybe I would need to dig a hole in the ground and put the compost in there with regular dirt on top of it.
After 4 months of a warm winter, the containers continue to hold these pretty bags and are not decomposing and inside the bags there is not a lot of breakdown. My opinion is that the composting process is not happening fast enough. I suggested to my tenant that she place her scraps directly in the container to speed up the process. That does not work for her.
Question 1: Would the composting process go quicker without the biodegradable bags?
Question 2: Once I have fully composted matter, can I use it around the property, around plants and small trees without it attracting rodents? If the answer is no then maybe I would need to dig a hole in the ground and put the compost in there with regular dirt on top of it.