How to do a compost bin

lee8040

How long does it take to become usable compost? I've put a load of food, grass and greenery into a compost bin. Anything I should do with it to speed it up apart from turning it occassionally?

Dizzy_Ditzy

You need some "brown" in there, like broken up cardboard, shredded paper, tea bags and such like.

Be careful what food you're putting in there too :cool: kitchen scraps like veg peelings are fine, cooked leftover food, meat, citrus etc are not

Linda32

Try not to add too much grass. Its a bit 'wet' I find a domestic compost bin takes about a year to make compost. I start mine off in the Autumn and just add to it over the year and spread it over the garden the following Autumn.

Farway

Add some wee, how you get it in there is up to you

pendragon_arther

As above plus I've dug up and put in part of ant's nests to build up an eco system as well as a bit of soil. If you keep the lid on the heat generated will compost faster, but allow a gap sometimes for beetles to enter to keep down the small fly population.