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Is My Compost Ready For Use?

Is My Compost Ready For Use?

Whether you’re tending frequently to a fast-working hot compost heap, or leaving a slow, cold compost pile breakdown at a leisurely pace, you need to be able to recognize when decomposition is complete. What does finished compost…

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What To Put In Your Compost Bin (And What To Leave Out)

What To Put In Your Compost Bin (And What To Leave Out)

Are you sure you’re recycling everything you possibly can on your compost heap? After all, the more material you put in, the more black gold you’ll get out later! As a rule of thumb, everything that is…

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Why Does My Compost Pile Smell So Bad?

Why Does My Compost Pile Smell So Bad?

A healthy, efficient compost pile should have very little odor. And the finished compost should smell sweet and earthy when you dig it out. If your pile has a nasty smell that hits you before you even…

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Composting Wood Chips And Shavings

Composting Wood Chips And Shavings

Composting wood chips and shavings is a little trickier than composting softer materials, but it can be done. If you have a surplus of woody material from animal bedding, pruning trees and shrubs in your yard, or…

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Why Is My Compost Pile Not Breaking Down

Why Is My Compost Pile Not Breaking Down

Your compost pile is just sitting there. Doing nothing. A big heap of all the things you added to it, looking exactly the same as they did the day you dumped them on the pile. You on…

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Where To Locate A Compost Pile

Where To Locate A Compost Pile

Deciding where to locate a compost pile is an important business. It’s tempting to put your compost pile in an unloved, unused, out-of-sight part of the yard. But you’re probably going to achieve better results if you…

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Compost Starters And Accelerators – Do You Need Them?

Compost Starters And Accelerators – Do You Need Them?

Compost starters and accelerators, alongside activators, rejuvenators, and other similarly-named products are sold with the promise of being able to bring a dormant compost heap back to life. They’re liquids or powders, designed to be incorporated into…

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Hot Vs Cold Composting

Hot Vs Cold Composting

The world of composting has a language all of its own. Green vs brown materials, aerobic vs anaerobic digestion, activators vs accelerants. And of course, hot vs cold composting. In this article, we’re going to look at…

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Composting During The Coldest Months Of The Year

Composting During The Coldest Months Of The Year

Composting during the coldest months of the year is a much slower process than composting in summer. It may even grind to halt altogether, if winter conditions in your region are cold enough. Let’s take a look…

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What To Do With Your Homemade Compost

What To Do With Your Homemade Compost

So your compost pile is a success! All that household waste, mown grass, crumpled paper and shredded cardboard that you carefully mixed together last year has miraculously turned itself into a wonderful, peaty soil-like mixture. You’re finally…

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