Tips on Urban Composting: Make Compost in Your Home

Composting is a simple and effective way to recycle organic waste and turn it into nutrient-rich fertilizer. Learn how to make compost at your home.

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The four basic requirements for composting are air, water, carbon and nitrogen.

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Composting bins are designed to retain warmth and moisture while keeping pets, rodents, and other pests away.

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Nitrogen comes from your green kitchen and yard waste and carbon comes from brown waste. You'll need both for your compost

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Green materials like vegetable scraps, brown materials like dry leaves, twigs and other materials like hair and nut shells

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Meat, dairy, oily and greasy foods, plastic, metal, glass, pet feces, seeds of weeds should not be added to composting

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Follow 2:1 ratio of browns to greens to avoid smelly bins

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Add soil or compost to introduce helpful microorganisms

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Keep the compost moist, add dry materials if it is too wet, and add water if it's too dry.

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Turn and mix the compost every 3-5 days so that it is absorbs oxygen and speeds up decomposition

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In 4-8 weeks your dark coloured compost will be ready to use for your plants

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Tips on Urban Composting: Make Compost in Your Home

Composting is a simple and effective way to recycle organic waste and turn it into nutrient-rich fertilizer. Learn how to make compost at your home.

The four basic requirements for composting are air, water, carbon and nitrogen.

Basic Requirements for Composting

Composting bins are designed to retain warmth and moisture while keeping pets, rodents, and other pests away.

Use Compost Bins

Nitrogen comes from your green kitchen and yard waste and carbon comes from brown waste. You'll need both for your compost

Green and Brown waste

Green materials like vegetable scraps, brown materials like dry leaves, twigs and other materials like hair and nut shells

What to Add for Composting

Meat, dairy, oily and greasy foods, plastic, metal, glass, pet feces, seeds of weeds should not be added to composting

What Not to Add for Composting

Follow 2:1 ratio of browns to greens to avoid smelly bins

Maintain the Balance

Add soil or compost to introduce helpful microorganisms

Add Composting Aids

Keep the compost moist, add dry materials if it is too wet, and add water if it's too dry.

Monitor Moisture

Turn and mix the compost every 3-5 days so that it is absorbs oxygen and speeds up decomposition

Mix Regularly

In 4-8 weeks your dark coloured compost will be ready to use for your plants

Harvest Your Compost

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