Preparing our homemade compost has hardly any difficulty, but we must have clear three important ideas before starting:
1. We will need a composter to grow our homemade compost, a suitable container in which to add the raw material that, little by little, will become compost. We can buy this container or, better yet, build our own recycling and giving a second life to objects that have already completed their initial work such as, for example, old pots, work pallets, wooden fruit boxes, etc.
2. Our mix of homemade compost will grow from different types of raw materials : eggshells, fruit and vegetable peels, potato skins, twigs, fresh straw, wet grass, coffee grounds ... The key is in combining the sugar, cellulose and nitrogen of the different organic wastes in order to prepare that organic fertilizer which, in essence, is homemade compost.
3. The most important risk of preparing homemade compost is that the wastes rot and we get nothing more than an informed and pestilent mass. We will avoid that risk in two ways:
- Interposing wet and dry wastes in alternate layers .
- Periodically ventilating our compost mass.
