Compost bin

Composting is great for your garden and the environment. Instead of dumping vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, grass clippings, and fallen leaves in the trash, you can recycle them into a useful soil amendment.

Recycling organic matter at home keeps tons of food waste and yard debris from going to the landfill each year.

If you’re already on the compost-making bandwagon—or even if you’re a novice gardener—we’ve got some great ideas to share on how you can use all that black gold you’ve created.

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Here are eight top tips for how to use compost in your garden.

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Compost efficiently and consistently for fast results.

The more consistently you maintain the right conditions, the faster the composting happens. How fast the pile breaks down depends on several factors: particle size, carbon to nitrogen ratio, temperature, moisture, and aeration.

In the most efficient composting systems, it can take as little as three weeks to turn out a batch of finished compost.

In a passively managed comp

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