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  • From: yarrow@sfo.com
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Dealing with one's own trash....
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:20:31 -0700

In my compost bins, I found that whenever I saw lots of fruit flies hovering, it was easy to move them along by burying the compostables deeper in the pile, covering them with a layer of shredded newspaper, or adding a layer of coffee grounds.

To avoid smell and insects in something like a 5-gallon bucket with a lid, you can get some coffee grounds (free from most coffee shops) and cover each day's compostables with them.


noctaire@infobin.org wrote:
.... I need to come up with a tidy way of
gathering kitchen scraps to toss in the compost tumblers (something like a
container that won't attract insects or give off unpleasant smells). There
just seems to be so many other things though that don't go so nicely.




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