Compost Recipes: Building A Pile
Today I took advantage of a misty drizzly day to turn the compost and build another pile. If you’ve been around the Daddykirbs Farm for very long you already know that I love building compost piles. I truly do get a lot of Satisfaction In Making Compost.
Luke, my autistic son, loves helping. He reminds me that the compost needs turning. We found a hay fork for him at a local yard sale so he could have his own turning fork. Luke is very proud of that.
Compost Recipes: Today’s Special Blend
In order to build a successful compost pile you need a few things. The important ingredients are Carbon, Nitrogen and Water. Yep, 3 simple ingredients. Now… What is Carbon? What is Nitrogen? and what is … oh never mind, you know what water is.
Let’s use my special blend of the day to illustrate these ingredients for now. We can talk more about the details later.
Carbon is basically some type of plant material that is dead and dried. The “dead and dried” part is what gives Carbon it’s typical name of “Browns”. A lot of people will reference the “Brown ingredients” for a compost pile. Get creative, what types of carbon or brown material do you have available? Right now for me I have a lot of leaves. At this time of year people bag up this valuable resource and put it on the curb for garbage pickup. Such a waste! My little truck and I get a little workout collecting this valuable carbon material.
