After more than 8 months of collecting wet waste and preparing it for compost using daily dumps khamba and leave it pot, we have compost ready for use! We just need to sieve it and get it out. But since we have some vermicompost stock, we are holding off its use for later. One thing that we are unsure is about the quality of the compost and it appears there is no easy way to check it. Use of dry leaves were pretty low initially because we didn't have any plants then. But now we have abundant supply of leaves from our vegetable garden !
We have a khamba and two leave-it-pots, one of the leave-it-pots we leave it untouched for the waste to become compost and just use the other one to put fresh waste from the khamba. This seems to work very well. Otherwise you need to put the semi-compost in a bag and keep it for a while.
I guess this has become part of our daily chores and not something we have to do extra. While smell from the wastes after couple of days is still a challenge, thinking of the cause makes it something worthwhile to go through! Processing waste at the source is the best possible way to handle it for sure!
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