Save your yard waste from the landfill by turning it to a nutrient-rich soil amendment for your lawn. A small garden compost stack gets rid of the need to dispose of grass clippings, dead leaves and woody pruning debris. The substances decompose in the stack until they resemble rich, loose dirt, which you can use to boost garden beds, potting soil or as a lawn dressing table. A backyard compost pile requires both green, nitrogen-producing lawn waste and brownish, carbon-producing waste.
Lay an 8-inch layer of class materials, like tree branches or wax, over a 3- year from 3-foot area. Place your compost website in a well-drained, well-ventilated field of the garden, away from buildings. Coarse substances break down slowly but allow excess moisture to drain and air to circulate into the base of the stack.
Put a 6- to 8-inch layer of green lawn waste on top the foundation substances. Use grass clippings, weeds which haven’t gone to seed and leaves.
Cover the green stuff with a 6- to 8-inch layer of brownish yard waste, like lifeless, dry leaves or shredded divisions. Scatter a shovelful of garden dirt over the surface of the layer.
Mix the green and brown layers together with a spading fork. Be sure fine substances, like grass clippings, are totally integrated with the coarser materials in the stack so that they don’t mat. Water the mixed materials lightly until they are moist but not soggy.
Continue to add alternating layers of green stuff, brownish materials and garden dirt until the stack is about 3 feet deep. Mix and water every single layer.
Turn the pile every three days with the spading fork for a fast compost, which can be prepared to use in as little as two or three weeks. Turn once monthly for a slow compost, which can take around six weeks to complete. Water the stack if the substances start to dry out.
Use the compost after all the materials in the stack completely split and it looks like a rich ground.