My family has a couple giant composting bins that we integrate into our garden. This can lead to old seeds sprouting before or during something that we planted is growing. From this, we've gotten a ton of decorative gourds and a watermelon that's doing great.

What should I do if I don't have a yard.  I don't want to have a pile of compost in my kitchen.  This only works for people with a yard.

I've actually heard of people having a bin of composting worms in their apartments, definitely on patios.  here's a link:
http://www.fernbank.edu/Compostpdf/wormcomposting.pdf

Wow thanks for deleting my post, Jason.

(p.s. can we try to keep the conversations on topic?)

I'm looking at it now, and that's really cool

Yeah but worms in the kitchen might upset my tummy a bit

I'll lose my appetite

it can take some getting used to, I agree,.

YOu dont have to have a yard, Just an open space outside and you can buyt a compost bin from the nearest hardware store, or make one too

I live in an apartment, i don't have any space outside at all

Shunya, aren't you moving really soon to a house?

Hopefully

Buying or building a composting bin is really cool! My family tried it for a while, but we ended up not using it often, but I'm hoping to improve on that! One thing to consider when building a kind of planting box or compost box is to not use certain types of wood. My family recently found out that our tomato plant box is made of pressure treated wood, which at some point, was treated with Ammoniacal Copper Zinc Arsenate, arsenate as in arsenic, according to Western Wood
Preservers Institute. In their guide to Pressure Treated Wood it is stated that the wood should not be in prolonged contact with skin, food, or drinking water. The arsenic in the treated wood could result in a range of symptoms from nausea to central nervous system damage, and more information on the effects of arsenic to the body can be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026128/ , the National Center for Biotechnology website.