Garden Compost Tips

Posted by admin on March 29, 2011

Compost can be created with little effort at home. Items that can be added to compost heaps include tea leaves and tea bags, leaves, eggshells, coffee grounds, vegetables, fruits, wood ash, grass clippings,  manure, hay, sawdust, and straw. If wood is to be used in compost, it needs to be shredded. The compost heap should be placed away from the house where soil is well drained and winds are low. A compost heap can be created layering organic material, a compost bin can be built or purchased, or a trench can be dug to dump compost before again topping with soil.

If you don’t have time to build or manage a compost bin, it is always possible to make a new garden bed above ground or below ground with material 5 to 10 inches down which is not yet broken down.

It can be a lot of fun to build a compost bin rather than by one. For example people have used tires piled up, concrete blocks, a water tank, wooden pallets, and other ideas to make compost bins at little or no cost.