Composting is recycling your kitchen waste and lawn trimmings and turning them into a valuable resource for your garden or houseplants.
This is done by speeding up the process that the materials you use to compost go through on their own decomposition.
Compost is not soil.
It is a common misconception that the [...]
There are some rules to learn and follow about what you can put into your compost bin in order to keep your pile healthy and working properly.
The most widespread organic material that you will add to your compost will be kitchen scraps.
The kitchen scraps are considered green food that you feed [...]
The most common location for a compost pile or bin is in close proximity to your kitchen or garden.
You want it in a convenient location to make it easy and second nature to bring your food scraps or garden waste to the composter.
If you have a large yard, the yard waste [...]
If you would rather not purchase a bin for your compost pile, you should still devise a way to contain it.
You can easily and inexpensively build your own bin.
This will give you more control over the size of the pile and can prevent unwelcome animals helping themselves to some free food.
If [...]
The heat that is generated from the breaking down of organic matter into compost is known as hot composting.
There is also cold composting, it doesnt take as much of a commitment from you to upkeep or manage but it does take quite a bit longer to yield results.
Hot (or active) composting uses microbes [...]
