The most awaited article of the season : How to make compost ?
Kindly note that following is a procedure for making compost on a small scale. If you have a farm or if you need to start composting on a large scale please contact me here.
Take a huge container (something like an old bucket or a tub or a big cardboard box)
Let’s start layering the container.
Start filling the first 25% of the container with dried leaves or any other carbon rich organic matter.
Fill the next 10% with kitchen waste. As discussed earlier the kitchen waste is a good source of Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorous, magnesium and Calcium.
Again fill the next 25% with dry waste/dry leaves/sawdust
Fill the next 10% with kitchen waste.
And fill the last layer with dry waste/dry leaves.
Now if you have analyzed you will notice that 80% of the container contains dry waste (carbon) and only 20% contains wet waste. The reason behind this is :
- The elements are required in these proportions.
- More of wet waste might stink during the decaying process. It may also attract some small insects and mosquitoes. In order to avoid that we add more of carbon especially on the top most layer.
- The dry leaves are very fluffy and bulge up but once you add kitchen waste on top of it, it will go on compressing.
Reema's Garden 
Very useful information but will this not give strange odour when start to decompose?
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not at all…. that’s the reason i have mentioned those proportions. it will stink only when the quantity of wet waste is more compared to dry waste !!
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Hey, thanks.
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Good post. Keep posting. Wish to know.
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thank you so much !!! 🙂
yes lot of posts coming up 🙂
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Early waiting
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Good information how to make bio-fertilizer
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thank you sarang 🙂
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I want to learn composting and use it for my plants. I am expecting another article in this series as how long I have to leave it to become manure and add to plants. Thank you for such useful articles. Thank you
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yes there are articles coming up!! it is a series of 4 articles and the series would be completed within this week. 🙂 Thank you so much !!! and if you still find any information missing you can contact me anytime 🙂
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Recently moved to North Carolina. Can’t imagine why anything grows here with this red clay soil. Thanks for your recent visit to my blog.
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Great post!
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