How Do You Make A Compost Pile For Free?
Making a compost pile is free and easy to do if you save your kitchen scraps. Compost, or fertile soil, is created when biodegradable products like food, grass, and leaves break down into dirt. Compost soil is good for your plants and adds nutrients back into the ground. It is also environmentally friendly because it contains no chemicals or anything dangerous to pets and humans. Making compost is a good way to cut back on garbage and reintroduce “waste products” into the environment in their natural state. Pick a spot in your backyard that gets only a few hours of sunlight each day. Compost needs some heat to turn into soil. Save eggshells, grass, leaves, hay, sawdust, used coffee grounds, nutshells, hair clippings, and cut-up vegetable scraps. Empty these contents into a small pile in your backyard, about 3 feet by 3 feet. Do not put meat into your compost pile because it will attract animals and smell bad. Stir the contents of your compost every week with a few shovelfuls of dirt to
