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How to Start A Compost?
Composting is difficult. The wonderful truth is you couldn't stop stuff from decomposing if you tried.
A good compost bin or pile will decompose items quickly. A poor one will still decompose items, but slowly. Consider your location carefully. You don't want a compost to send smelly air downwind to your house on a hot day, but you also don't want to have to walk far from your kitchen to put things into it on a cold or rainy day. If your compost is located to receive sun, the contents will break down faster than if you put it in a shady place.
A compost can be made with metal fencing or wood pallets, or you can purchase a commercial compost bin through a garden center. Improved features on a compost bin might include a lid to prevent animal entry, a black exterior to improve solar gain and speed up the compost process, vents also to speed up the process, and a trap door at the bottom so you can pull out the rich, finished compost to spread around your garden beds. This last feature can be very nice as then you won't have to muck about from the top with a shovel to get to the useable stuff at the bottom.
In your kitchen keep some kind of container with a handle to collect compost. Some gallon ice cream tubs come with a lid and handle and are great for this purpose. A lid helps prevent fruit flies in summer. When anyone in your house chops vegetables, peels an orange, etc, put it in the compost bucket. Once a day carry the contents to your compost bin.
Into the compost bin you can put vegetable and fruit parts, pasta water, spoiled food, sour milk or fuzzy yogurt, coffee grounds, egg shells, citrus rinds and cantaloupe rinds surprisingly break down quite well. When you are cleaning up your yard you can put in healthy leaves.
What you don't want in your compost: meat, bones, kitty litter (even if you use clay litter, this would create a health hazard), nut shells, those little sticky labels they put on fruits (watch out for them), look out for accidentally dumping in plastic wrappers (happens more often than you might think), sticks, any parts of pine trees, green walnuts, diseased or unwanted plants from your yard.
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How Does Composting Work? Understanding the Science of Compost
Whether you are aware of it or not, there are many factors that are hard at work in your compost pile. The two most important factors in compost are:
• The amount and variety of organisms in the compost;
• The various components and their chemical make up
There are various micro organisms that have their own part to play in the chemical process of decomposing all organic materials. These include:
• Fungi - these are very small, however they carry out some of the most complex activities in decomposition. They survive on materials that are dead or dying and they take their energy from the process of breaking down those organic materials.
• Actinomycetes - these are somewhat similar to fungi; however they are a much higher form of bacteria. These little organisms are what produce that "earthy" smell in your compost pile. They work to free the carbon, nitrogen and ammonia from everything in the pile and turn the materials into an almost peat-like substance.
• Bacteria - they can survive on just about anything, living or dead. They are very sensitive to temperature and as the temperature of your compost pile increases or decreases, they either become very active or inactive.
• Macro-organisms - these are the little creatures that you can see with your naked eye - including snails, slugs, ants, worms, sow bugs, spiders, mites, nematodes and flies. These creatures work to transform your raw materials into compost by chewing, digesting, churning, grinding and sucking the materials.
In addition to these creatures, your compost requires other factors to work. These include the carbon to nitrogen ratio, the surface area exposed, temperature, moisture and oxygen.
Carbon and nitrogen need to have a certain ratio to be effective in compost. The carbon is in materials that are "brown", such as shredded paper and straw, while the nitrogen portion is things such as kitchen waste and grass clippings. Once you start adding things to your pile, you will see how important this ratio is for successful composting.
The surface area allows for more successful decomposition by your micro organism friends. The larger the area, the more room they have to work. Aeration is crucial because oxygen is the main requirement for decomposition. This means that you need to actually mix up your compost at least once per week to add in enough air. The entire pile should not be too wet (you should not be able to squeeze water from a handful of material). Temperature is very crucial as well. If your pile's temperature is too low, it will slow the rate of decomposition.
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