No-Waste Composting by Michelle Balz

Author:Michelle Balz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Hot Composting Materials

Hot composting requires that you add all your materials at once, rather than over the weeks and months you naturally generate the materials. This means you will need to freeze a month’s worth of kitchen scraps, run to your local coffee shop for a donation of used grounds, and stockpile your leaves and yard trimmings until you have enough to make a large pile.

All materials you add to a hot compost pile should be chopped or ground as small as possible. You can’t add a whole pumpkin or even a whole stalk of celery. Keeping everything smaller than 2 inches (5 cm) will increase surface area and speed up decomposition. Branches and unchipped wood have no place in a hot compost pile.

You also need to perfectly balance the carbon and nitrogen in your pile. Add three parts brown for every one part green. Traditional composting allows you more variation in brown versus green, but the 3:1 ratio must be perfect for hot composting to work.

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