How quickly can you make compost?

Your compost will be ready in about 8 months to a year. If this seems like a long time, you could set up several compost bins to use in rotation. Turning the pile to help the air get to it from time to time will also help speed up the process.

How do you make compost in a short time?

Here’s how to do it:

1. Use equal parts by volume of green and brown materials. This will deliver the 30:1 ration of carbon- to nitrogen-rich ingredients you’re after.
2. Chop them small, into ½- to 1½-inch pieces.
3. Layer greens and browns in a pile at least 36 inches square and 36 inches high.
4. Add water.
5. Turn the pile.

How is compost made step by step?

7 Easy Steps to Composting

1. Choose Your Type of Backyard Compost Bin. You can use either an open pile or a compost bin.
2. Choose Your Composter Location.
3. Alternate Layers.
4. Add Kitchen and Yard Waste as They Accumulate.
5. Continue to Add Layers Until Your Bin is Full.
6. Maintain Your Compost Bin.
7. Harvest Your Compost.

What can I add to speed up composting?

Nitrogen-rich materials include kitchen scraps, fresh prunings from your garden, alfalfa hay, grass clippings and seaweed. You can boost a compost pile with Super Hot, an organic activator make of nitrogen and hungry micro-organisms.

How do I know when my compost is ready?

Compost is ready or finished when it looks, feels and smells like rich, dark earth rather than rotting vegetables. In other words, it should be dark brown, crumbly and smell like earth.

What can I add to my compost pile to speed it up?

How do you mix compost into soil?

Mix four parts soil with one part compost. You may also top dress perennial flower gardens with no greater than 1/4 to 1/2 inch of compost. A soil mix for this use should be around 10 percent. To obtain a 10 percent mixture, you should mix 9 parts soil to 1 part compost.