COMPOST!!!

Don’t waste your old hay, paper scraps, coffee grinds, uprooted weeds, etc.

COMPOST!!!

You want a healthy garden, with flourishing plants and happy little sprouts???

COMPOST!!!

Sooo… I want to compost… but how??

Building A Compost Bin/Box/Pile Thingie

So the gist of a Compost Container is some container that is at least 1 cubic foot to allow proper composition, that you can put compost in from up top, and take it out from lower down.

Being creative is great!

I’ve seen it done as a circle of bricks stacked up to about 5 foot tall, with ones you can remove at the bottom.

I’ve heard of it as a box with an open top and removable boards down below.

It is important to remember that it needs to have ventilation and drainage.

Some people cover compost piles to retain heat and moisture, but prevent it being water logged. However, good drainage should solve this.

You can also dig a compost trench or hole if you don’t want a bin! You can cover a trench with soil too to speed the process.

You can even compost inside, using a bucket, or a plastic bin!

What Can I Compost?

Pretty much everything can be put in besides:

1. plastic (that includes Styrofoam)
2. Metal, which has an extraordinarily long composting time
3. Protein high excrement (i.e. that of carnivores and non-avian omnivores)
4. fats
5. bone
6. cheeses
7. poisonous stuffs
8. meat, as it is not healthy for plants and can attract diseases.
9. Diseased animal or plant material.

Wax composts rather slowly so you might want to think twice before putting it in and stuff coated in it, but it’s not in any way harmful.

Organisms For the Compost

You can buy Effective Microorganisms (EM) in bottle to put in your compost piles. At any old bait store, you can purchase red wrigglers or night crawlers for composting. Isopods (rolly-pollies) are also easy to buy and good for composting.

What you want to avoid is bugs harmful to gardens as they will flourish in your compost and when it’s moved to the garden they will overtake it!

Of course, all these come naturally or can be found (be sides the microorganisms which are microscopic) in your own yard and brought to the compost bin, so there’s no great need to buy them.

Maintaining The Compost

Shredding compost, watering, and stirring may help, but they may annoy your elephant.

Personally I find it best to just leave it, and come time to use compost, it’s usually ready!

Well I hope this helps! Questions, comments, or concerns are appreciated!