Make Easy Compost That Smells Good

Some people love the idea of composting but don’t do it because it’s too much trouble. Some people are willing to make the effort but can’t stand the smell or fruit flies. What if there is an efficient way to make compost at home that actually smells good and doesn’t attract fruit flies at all, unlike common methods?

Common composting methods

The municipal program collects food scraps

Pros:

1. It works when you don’t want to or can’t compost in your yard

Cons: 

1. Need a small compost bin for indoors. A good one will keep the smell in and the bugs out, but there is smell when you open.
2. Need to wait till weekly collection time of the municipal program or trash company. The smell is terrible when you dump your compost. 

Set up a compost file in your yard

Pros:

1. You get use the compost turned organic fertilizer

Cons:

1. Still need a small counter top compost container or bin
2. May use a large compost bin or composter system outdoor
3. Need to layer brown and green materials
4. Need to keep the compost moist
5. Need to periodically mix or turn the compost
6. Need to scoop the compost out of the pile when ready
7. It can easily smell bad if you don’t maintain the compost well
8. Flies
9. Bad aesthetics in the garden

Electric kitchen heating composter or foodcycler

Pros:

1. Good for small homes with indoor planters but no outdoor garden
2. Quiet and odorless

Cons: 

1. The high temperature of the composter diminishes nutrients
2. Higher cost of appliance and electricity
3. It takes significant counter space

An efficient clean composting method

This compost pesto method works amazingly well when you have some soil in your garden or yard. I develop this efficient approach because I couldn’t stand the inconvenience, bad smell and fruit flies of the common composting methods. It’s easy so I sustain doing so for years.

Maybe it will work well for you. You can try at no extra cost because you already have everything you need. Or, you can modify as you see fit for your own unique situation!

The compost pesto method

Pros: 

1. It does not smell at any time point. Or it smells delicious. 
2. No need to purchase any countertop or outdoor compost bin
3. Minimal effort or time needed
4. You get use the compost turned organic fertilizer

Cons:

1. May take up some space in the fridge or freezer

Step 1: Collect

• You need tupperware for your food scraps. Collect and put away in the fridge after each food prep. 
• You can store or transfer the tupperware of food scraps to the freezer it takes a long time to fill up or it takes a long time to proceed to step 2. 
• Fruits, veggies and egg shells are great. Animal protein is better limited. No large hard fruit pits if you don’t have a powerful blender.

Step 2: Blend

• Use a blender. Add food scraps and enough water to blend to a pesto or thick smoothie consistency.
• The best timing to blend is to do it after you just use your blender for smoothie or other food, so no extra blender jar cleaning is needed. 

Step 3: Mix with soil

• Mix the compost pesto into the soil in your yard till it looks like soil. It takes about a minute or two for each batch. 
• You are done! It does not smell.