Backyard Composter
Composting is an effective way to help the environment, reduce household waste, and recycle it to make a valuable soil amendment.
When you have a composter, you will be able to save money as you may no longer have to buy compost, and you don?t have to spend any money placing in the ingredients needed for composting.
Having your own composter will allow you to give an excellent kind of compost to your plants made from all natural ingredients.
You may be able to get a composter from your municipality or build your own backyard composter. It will take from 2 months up for the composting process to be completed.
The compost is ready when it is brownish black in color and looks like soil.
Composting Guidelines
Location: Place the backyard composter in an area that is accessible and where it will get full sun or partial sun. First layer: Layer the bottom part of the backyard composter with dried twigs to allow for aeration.Alternate layers: The composting ingredients should be placed by alternating layers, wet (like food scraps), then dry, (like leaves).Layer depth: The ideal thickness of any layer is from 6 cm to 15 cm deep, if the layer is too thick, the air needed for composting will not circulate and the process will take longer. Shred: The smaller the pieces are, the fasted they will decompose.Turn: If possible, each time you add new material, turn the mixture so that it will stay aerated. Food scraps: Place only uncooked foods scraps from fruits and vegetables, like peels, discarded leaves and other parts, and eggshell. You may place in coffee grounds and used tea leaves. No cooked food: Try not to place in food items such as pasta, rice, fried food, and other similar items as they will emit a foul odor.Add food scraps: only raw fruit, veggies, coffee grounds, tea bags, egg shells. Dry materials: Grass clippings, leaves, twigs, bark, newspapers, and other similar materials make excellent composting ingredients.Winter care: You may add in materials even if the during the cold months, and turn them for aeration once the warm weather has set in.Pile is too dry: Add water and mix well. Pile is too wet: Add dry material, mix well to break up the clumps.Natural: The more natural the material that you place in, the better the results will be.________________________________________________________________
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