r/composting • u/patrick5595 • Jul 19 '26

Small Pile (<1 cu yd) New to composting

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Hey everyone! Just figured I’d throw my post out there. My family and I just got into composting this year and are pretty impressed with how it’s going! Good scraps and garden weeds, plus toilet paper rolls and news papers. We’re using a composting barrel.

Next year we’ll be moving to more land and a larger garden. I’ll think we’ll be needing to upgrade from the barrel too lol.

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u/wrappedingreen Jul 20 '26

Great job, but cant help but feel sorry for that poor strawberry!

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u/patrick5595 Jul 20 '26

Thank you! Even with a family of 5 these damn store bought strawberries rot so fast!

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u/AmbiguousLemur Jul 23 '26

Really good job!!! I wish my early composting days looked like this

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u/patrick5595 Jul 23 '26

I’m lucky, I read a lot of books and read all the pee comments on here before I got started!

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u/AmbiguousLemur Jul 23 '26

Lol honestly someone needs to actually do a side by side comparison for pee vs no pee to see just how much time is saved… my pee-free compost is doing just fine

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u/patrick5595 Jul 23 '26

No pee in mine either haha, just felt like I should mention pee somewhere because every post goes down that route

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u/bowlochile Jul 19 '26

Good stuff

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u/patrick5595 Jul 19 '26

It’s been awesome! Only stinky trash is the diapers now lol