If you've started making your own compost, congratulations! It's one of the best ways of adding humus to the soil. Experts agree that feeding plants with humus is exactly the way nature intended them to feed. It makes sense therefore that the compost you make should have a high colloidal humus content to improve the fertility of the soil and the healthy growth of your plants. Unfortunately most composting methods aim for a crumbly soil like substance, which is not humus.
If you make compost properly, then it will not smell and does not need turning. You definitely don't need fancy or expensive equipment like tumblers or compost bins.
If you end up with compost that is like rich dark soil it's okay, it will still be beneficial to your plants even though it doesn't have a high humus content. Next time you can get a far higher quality result by following my top 4 tips for successful composting:
1. Mix It Up:
The different types of organic matter need to be well mixed. For the composting bacteria to thrive, the nitrogen and carbon materials need to be in close contact
2. Juicy stuff
The compost pile needs to constantly moist throughout the whole pile for the duration of the process. The correct moisture level is similar to that of a damp sponge.
3. All at once
The pile needs to be created all at one time, from materials that you have collected and kept separate until you are ready to make your compost pile. Otherwise, you will be only composting small amounts at a time and they will all be at different stages.
4. Give it some oxygen
The compost bacteria which will help turn your materials into rich colloidal humus compost need air, so your compost pile needs airflow. How you provide airflow without turning your pile I'm not going to tell you here!
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