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Choose a spot to keep your compost pile. It can be an open pile or enclosed by some sort of mesh bin (the compost pile must be able to breathe). Some make a bin out of old wooden pallets, if you use something like an old garbage can make sure it is full of holes for the compost pile to be able to breathe in.
Start off the compost pile with fresh green waste: vegetable clippings from the kitchen, any vegetables or fruit waste, grass clippings.
Always cover green waste with dry brown waste, this will help keep all pests away from the compost pile and it will ensure that the compost pile doesn’t smell bad. Dry brown waste: dry leaves, dry straw, dry grass clippings.
Material can be added to the compost pile daily if possible. To speed up the process the compost pile can be turned by a shovel or pitchfork.
If the pile remains stationary it will take longer, but finished compost will be available at the bottom of the pile first. Finished compost is black in color and should not have a bad odor to it. Once the compost is finished it can be added to the garden near planted plants or mixed into the soil before planting.
