A small vegetable garden is good for your health, your neighbourhood, your sense of self, and even your pocketbook. In many backyard gardens a simple composter is usually enough to refresh the soil and keep the plants happy. If you’re limited in space you can still make use of your kitchen scraps in a garden using the power of a blender. A household blender can speed up the decomposition process by chopping up food waste into a slurry that will quickly be consumed by all those nice little microbes. When you do this don’t go easy on the water and don’t dump all the slurry in one spot – spread it out for best results.
Blender compost can be made out of any blendable kitchen scraps that you’d normally throw into your compost pile, such as vegetable and fruit peels and cores, cooked pasta, eggshells, coffee grounds, and loose-leaf tea. If you don’t mind a bit more mess, you can also blend in premoistened paper towels, cut flowers, and dried autumn leaves. Just like with any compost, steer clear of blending meat or dairy waste, which attracts pests.