About Compost Instructions

!±8± About Compost Instructions

compostinstructions.com This is the video for the "About" section on CompostInstructions.com. It lets you know what we are all about and explains a few things about the site in particular. If you have any questions about compost, composting, and different ways to use compost for your garden. If you have any questions about composting, please visit the website at the top of this description. Thank you so much.

About Compost Instructions

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How to admixture / accomplish compost. Composting explained in 2 minutes

!±8± How to admixture / accomplish compost. Composting explained in 2 minutes

This is a how to video on composting by Clean Air Gardening which shows you step by step instructions on how to successfully compost organically. Learn how to compost in just over 2 minutes. Composting is for everyone so watch and learn how to compost now.

How to admixture / accomplish compost. Composting explained in 2 minutes

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Compost Toilet System

!±8± Compost Toilet System

Check out this composting toilet system. Fairly simple to set up and run with so many benefits to be gained for your garden. Makes you wonder why we spend millions pumping this great resource into ponds, landfill and out to sea.

Compost Toilet System

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Guide to Using a Compost Tumbler

!±8± Guide to Using a Compost Tumbler

Compost tumblers have been around since gardeners learned to appreciate the importance of compost and the necessity to put air into. Before, aerating requires a shovel and lots handwork. With the help of tumblers, turning and aerating is a breeze. So how do you speed up the composting process of your organic materials by using tumblers?

The first thing to do is put up the tumbler and installs it in a solid, leveled surface, be it on pavers, bricks, or concrete pads. This helps in securing the device so as to avoid spillage and unnecessary skipping of odor.

Second, gather and prepare all your organic. Preparation includes separating the green from the brown. Green materials include those that are rich in nitrogen like grass clippings, manure, garden refuse, tea, coffee grounds, and hair. Brown materials are those rich in carbon like woody branches, sawdust, straw, fall leaves, dried grass, and paper. You may also need to shred or chip the items, you can use shredder or chipper.

Third, put all the materials onto the tumbler with the right ratio. The most ideal is fifty percent green materials and fifty percent brown materials. A balance of these materials will get rid of unpleasant odor. If imbalance in materials takes place, an ammoniac odor occurs; this is caused by the building up of nitrogen. Too much of the green materials then is not good.

You can counter the odor by adding dried leaves, pine needles, and wood ash.

Fourth, cover the materials with water until sponge-like dampness is achieved. And finally, close the unit and use the tumbler according to its instructions. The best way to achieve good compost under little time is to rotate the device at least three times a week. Instructions vary from product to product. The fastest you can probably get is 14 days.

Guide to Using a Compost Tumbler

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Why Does Compost Stink?

!±8± Why Does Compost Stink?

Many people have somehow acquired the misconception that compost normally stinks, that it must be a smelly affair. Nothing can be further from the truth. An earthy scent is normal and inoffensive, but a well-built compost shouldn't produce unpleasant odors.

So if you have a bad smell coming from your compost bin, answer these few questions to help determine the problem and find out how to fix the problem.

1. Did you accidentally throw in leftover meat or bones with other composting material?

If you did, remove it quickly, for you will definitely get a rotten smell coming from the bin.

Meat and meat bones should never be added to your compost pile because...

a) Especially in the summer, heat causes the meat to rot quickly and within hours develop a very bad odor.

b) Cooked meat is "dead" food so adds nothing to your compost.

c) Finally it attracts animals who will tear your bin apart to get to the meat.

2. Did you accidentally throw milk or cheese products in the bin?

Again, milk and cheese will turn acrid and cause a smell in your bin, so all must be removed from the bin.

3. Is there an ammonia smell coming from the pile?

If so, your pile has too much "green" stuff such as fruit peels, tea leaves, vegetables, and peelings.

To change this condition, you must mix in brown stuff such as buckwheat hulls, dried grass clippings, paper, or peat moss (and the list goes on). In other words, the compost pile must be rebuilt.

The best way to create a "non-smelly pile" is by beginning with one layer of "greens" followed by one layer of "browns", and continuing this process of alternating each layer until you have no more ingredients to put into the pile.

4. Is there a "rotten egg" smell coming from the pile?

If so, there is too little air getting to the center of the pile. Since air provides the necessary oxygen which enables bacteria to carry out "aerobic' or non-smelly decomposition, it is very important to keep plenty of air flowing through the compost pile to help the decomposer organisms do their job.

Because air penetrates only the first few inches of the pile, it needs help to reach the center. Therefore if you suddenly get that nasty rotten egg smell around the compost, it means that anaerobic bacteria are moving in, and the pile may simply need to breathe. (Oh, the pile will decompose, but the decomposition will be accompanied by this rotten egg smell.)

I have had up to three compost bins in my back yard, and I have never been bothered by smell. So if you follow the above steps, you should not have any more problems with "smell."

Why Does Compost Stink?

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