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 much lighter and fluffier, making them easy to handle. Consider a compost bin or ...
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...
How to start a simple compost pile, what you can compost, and everything else you need to know to have a healthy compost pile as a beginner.
Step-by-step advice on how to make a simple but sturdy compost bin using recycled wooden pallets.
Step 3: Mix Everything Together in a Compost Heap, Bin, or Tumbler Step 3 of how to compost is to mix everything together in a compost heap, bin, or tumbler. Try to make sure the different ingredients are well-mixed, almost as if you were baking something in the kitchen. Compost is...
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 ...