Turn your heap every three to four days. Some may recommend turning your pile every three weeks, but turning it every few days will guarantee composting success. Because your leaves have been shredded, they are
Find out how to build your own compost bin using old pallets, in this simple step-by-step project. From the experts at BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.
It’s best to set up your compost heap on soil if you can – this will make it easier for worms and microbes to access your heap and help break it down, as well as making it easier for any liquids produced by the decomposing matter to be absorbed into the ground. Ideally, you want...
“Make sure you have the ability to have airflow across, through, and around the material as it’s breaking down. This is super important, otherwise you’ll have a cold, smelly, anerobic compost pile.” –Nick Shaw, Apex Organix Where Beginner Composters Usually Go Wrong We also asked ...
Step-by-step advice on how to make a simple but sturdy compost bin using recycled wooden pallets.
Whatever the soil type, a few weeks before planting, dig it over and weed it well, adding weeds to the compost heap - unless they are carrying ripe seeds in which case they should be added to the trash. Once you have dug the soil and weeded, fork in a generous amount of well-rotted...
A Heap of Treasure; How to Cook Up Great CompostAdrienne Cook
slugs to a less susceptible area, add them to your compost heap, or, to be sure, take them out to a nearby wooded area or something similar. Go on further slug hunts over the coming nights, and you’ll pick up the stragglers and should make an appreciable dent in the slug population...
Speeding up the composting process doesn’t have to be difficult. There are a few simple things you can do to compost material more quickly. First, make sure your compost heap or compost tumbler is in a sunny spot. The sun will help to break down organic matter more quickly. Second, cho...
all you need to do to build a compost heap out of pallets is to gather the pallets themselves and use a few tools to fasten them together (and the stuff you’re composting, of course). It’s not the prettiest option for a compost pile—but whoever said composting was supposed to be ...