This has happened to me many times that I plan to clean up my fridge and find a bag of berries or grapes that are mushy, wilted spinach, rotten cauliflower, or tomatoes. The week just got so busy that it completely slipped your mind on eating these fruits and vegetables and just for a moment I have this entire feeling of guilt come over me before I could toss it into my bin. Well, if you have been caught a similar kind of situation then simply throwing these vegetables and fruits is not a solution you can now toss them into your composting pile and allow them to add to the nutrient content of the compost. You can also add all your leftover foods and scraps to your compost pile.
Well, many of you are wondering what kinds of fruits are good to be added to your compose then let me tell you that most fruits that include apples, bananas, berries, and grapes offer sufficient nutrients that in turn will help to enrich the soil. All types are safe however it definitely also depends on the kind of composing system you are currently utilizing and yes certain fruits are much better in comparison to the others. So, at the moment if you are utilizing a traditional Composting method in a tiny space outdoors instead of utilizing vermicomposting, (it uses earthworms), then you should consider avoiding vegetables and fruits with large seeds.
Fruits that have large seeds that include stone fruits, avocados, nectarines, and peaches tend to take a very long period of time to break down and decompose, and sometimes we have also notice that they may never break down. It’s alright if you plan to compose just the fruit however whenever possible make sure you take out the pit. Furthermore, highly acidic fruits that include tomato citrus fruit and will definitely have given negative effect on the ph. levels if you’re using a vermicompost bin.
No matter how conscious I am and the efforts I made to avoid wastage and certain fruits that do end up in my bin. I’ve always found orange peels, melon rinds, and apple cores in plenty and if you are a cook, you would definitely know that cooking or baking with fruits will always end up with you having huge amounts of scraps at hand. This is an opportunity that we can seize, giving these fruits scraps another mission and help recycle them into the soil. I’m sure you all have amazing compost bins that you can add these fruits in along with other kitchen scraps. All these leftover food scraps and the fruits that you dump into your indoor composter may also help and be extremely efficient to decompose them all.
So overall I must say that you can successfully compost almost all the common fruit that we use and ways that include melon rinds, citrus, cores, peals you can also utilize leftover pulp that you may have from your juice or jellies along with the uneaten parts of cooked or raw fruits. And always remember that the pulp from the fruits is always acceptable, cooked or raw, and even with seeds.
That’s all for now I hope these tips will help you compose the right fruits in the right way. Happy composting!