- Cover the top of the pile with a ½- to 1-inch layer of
soil.
- Water the completed pile regularly until it is ready for
use.
- Let the completed pile cure 3 to 6 months while you
are building a new pile. Turn the pile once for faster
decomposition. For planning purposes, remember that a
4-foot-high compost pile will be 1 to 1^1 ⁄ 3 feet high
when it is ready to use.
Note: We sometimes build a compost pile on an unused growing bed so the next
crop grown in that bed will pick up and utilize any nutrients leached out from the pile
into the soil. The next season we build compost on another unused growing bed.
All Compost Is Not Equal
FIVE IMPORTANT FACTORS TO MORE COMPOST
EFFICIENCY
We have discovered 9ve factors that may enable GROW
BIOINTENSIVE compost to have much more power
quantitatively and qualitatively:
- More total compost due to higher yields. The result can
be up to 2 to 6 times the cured compost.
- More possible compost when using a cold composting
process. You can try this by using:
- slightly more carbonaceous material and/or less
nitrogenous material,
