Al Carrell: One of our viewers contacted us on the Internet and asked if there's a way for an apartment dweller to have a compost heap when they don't have yard. Well, there is and I'm gonna show you how.

Start with one of these cardboard milk cartons that is a half-gallon size. Open it up at the top and put some dirt in there, just plain old dirt, a couple of inches. Then, you start saving the scraps from the food. Now you wanna save any kind of vegetable peels, lettuce ends, the ends of the celery, anything like that. But don't put any meat products or anything that has any kind of grease in there.

Put it in your blender and turn it on. Now when it's almost turned into soup, you can go ahead and pour it in on top of the dirt. As soon as you get it poured it, mix it up just a little bit (a paint stirrer is a good mixer or you can use a long handled teaspoon). Stir it up real good. The next thing you're gonna do is pour in just a little bit of water, just enough to cover it up. Now you're gonna seal the box up, clothespin will usually do that, and you're gonna wait until you develop some more table scraps. And you keep doing this, adding the dirt, layer of dirt, each time; put the scraps in there; put a little water in on top; stir it up, keep doing it until you get up to the top and then add about 1/2 cup of water to fill it up. Keep it sealed up so that you don't have any odor coming out of there and wait a couple of weeks. It's gonna turn into the best plant food you've ever seen.

You can help to activate it a little more if you put it in a window where it's gonna get some sunshine and some heat. It's a way for you to have free food for your plants and get rid of some of the scraps that normally you just end up in the garbage with.

I'm Super Handyman Al Carrell - About the House.