Critter, I thought he said IF it won't attract, and to cover if it does?
One reason I was so happy to move out of an apt and into my little patch of paradise was composting. When I set up my garbage service after moving in here, they provided me with a standard 96gal bin on wheels for their guys to empty each week. Unless I've been doing some special project, each week I put ONE 13-gal trash bag (the tall kitchen trash can size) into that huge bin and wheel it to the curb.
On the other hand, I bought myself a 64gal bin on wheels for my recycling, and it's usually half-full when I wheel it out for them (I get free recycling, and they would have provided me a large bin for $5/month. I chose to buy instead of rent).
And each week, I put anywhere from 2-5 1-gallon buckets of kitchen scraps into the compost pile or one of the new beds I built that aren't planted yet. I save my cardboard to use as "weed fabric," as well as all the extraneous paper that goes with working from home and being a part-time author. And my neighbor gives me his grass clippings. So I dump the bucket of scraps into the new bed, and then cover it with grass clippings. So far, I've not added soil to the beds -- just downed branches, rotting logs, grass clippings and kitchen scraps.
Except apple cores -- I toss those into the grove of trees beyond the back yard and hope the seeds eventually sprout
