Depending on the size of your compost heap, you can turn your compost materials into ready-to-use compost in as little as a few months. Factors such as how often you add to your heap impact how ...

Turn your heap periodically to get more air in. A cold compost heap doesn't mean it isn't decomposing, just that the process will take a little longer.

They feed on the waste, breaking it down into hot compost. Don't put large quantities of the same waste in the heap together, particularly grass clippings. Instead, mix a variety of other waste.

The ingredients of compost are dead things or, as the YouTube gardener Bruce Darrell put it, ‘anything that was recently ...