Composting at Home

Finally bought a composting equipment, Khamba, designed and manufactured by DailyDump for the needs of a home with 2-4 people. While we were planning to visit the nearest DailyDump dealer, Bimba the Art Hut, we found out that the online Garden supplier, GardenGiga, was selling it in their online shop. GardenGiga is a new venture who is aspiring to be a one-stop place for all your Garden accesories. They are not there yet, but they have plans to connect all kinds of suppliers to the consumers through their portal.

It was delivered home last weekend and we figured out the stuff by going through their manual and DailyDump website. The Khamba has 3 separate terracotta vessels stacked on top. The top two vessels can be interchanged once the top one fills up. The bottom one keeps the semi-compost after it has been cycled through the top and middle vessels.

We have placed the Khamba in our utility area so that we can dump things pretty easily to it and there is good ventilation in the area as well. But the lid seems to be a bit heavy for frequent use and being a terracotta one, it needs some careful handling. I guess some of the other varieties have a small lid in the center of the big one which makes it easy to open and put stuff inside. This is indeed one of the problems of shopping online for things that you are not very familiar with. The online vendors typically are middlement connecting the real vendors and the consumers and they may not have a shop where you can check things out. But it will be very useful for garden supplies that you need regularly to place an order online and get delivered home.

So we have started dumping kitchen waste into it, but we may need some supplies(dried leaves etc.) to get going fully. We are also wondering how the cockroaches around will find the new place where they can get stuff. The vessels don't fit very tightly(may be by design for ventilation) and the cockroaches could get in easily. But then the idea is to compost it naturally - so a bit of cockroaches and flies could help the composting go well!

It does look pretty doable at home with little bit of work and if you have a garden, it should be worth the trouble to get some compost recycling your kitc.