Making Your Own Compost
Story: Making Your Own Compost
Episode: 15
Presenter: Neville Passmore.
Air Date: 28th November 2020
Compost is great for improving the overall health of your soil. Neville shares a way you can make your own.
- The best place to begin is on a bare patch of soil. This will allow earthworms, fungi and microbes to get into it.
- Avoid hot and exposed locations to help keep your compost moist during summer.
- You need 4 Ultraposts, a stake driver, around 6m of Whites Pro Series Chicken Netting, cable ties, tie wire, cardboard sheets, a Gympie hammer and wire cutters.
- Drive the 4 Ultraposts into the ground, approximately 1m apart.
- Wrap the mesh around the posts, using the tie wire to secure three sides.
- The front can be secured with cable ties. These can be cut when you need to turn or empty it out.
- Use dry cardboard to line the sides and cover the top. The cardboard will help contain the compost and keep the moisture inside before breaking down.
- Adequate air and moisture is crucial. Make breather tubes from the leftover mesh and moisten all the ingredients before adding them to the pile.
- Load the ingredients is in thin layers and try to reduce the particle sizes as much as is practical.
- This is well-suited to leaf litter, garden clippings, weeds, lawn clipping and shredded paper.
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