Spring & Summer Compost Tips

With these past two weeks of juice cleansing I have had a ton of nicely shredded veggie and fruit scraps. What a great boost for my compost! I have been making daily runs out to the compost bin and it's quickly building up.

A few tips I have for you on composting in the spring and summer are below. These are just ideas that have worked well for me.

**********Spring and Summer Compost pointers***********

1. Take scraps out daily since the heat makes even the tightest pail stinky.

2. Separate your pile into two separate piles, winter till now, and from here on through the fall
( you will take the older pile and use now, I will be spreading mine on my garden as soon as its tilled in the next week or so). The newer pile is good to spread on your garden in the fall for good fertilization for the next years crop.

First picture below is my new scrap pile

3. Give your pile a weekly toss, with the heat, your pile will be "brewing" more. I try to get the new stuff mixed in well with the finer decomposed stuff for faster composting.

4. Make use of some free grass clippings after your lawn is mowed. My hubs usually rakes me a pile after he cuts and tosses it on top. Just can't forget to add your "browns" in the summer! (tiny sticks, leaves, grass, etc)

5. Just a little bonus to fill you in on, every year I get a ton of tomato plants that sprout up on their own in the garden from the seeds that are in the compost. Most of them in our case are cherry tomato plants.

6. Happy worms, happy compost! If you see lots of worms then that's a great sign you are doing everything right and the soil is getting finer and softer!

Any questions, just ask and I'll do my best to answer them!