How To Make Hot Compost

Compost is the backbone of your soil. It adds nutrients to your soil and creates optimal soil structure to grow healthy plants. You need at least two bins which are 1x1x1 metre in dimension. Only by creating a pile to a metre high will it reach 70 degrees to cook the compost. You need to collect…
1 nitrogenous material: kitchen scraps; lawn clippings; chicken poo; animal manure; blood and bone; sheep pellets
2 carbonaceous material: dead stuff like trimmings from the perennial garden which are now brown; dead weeds; straw; egg cartons (which have air pockets and therefore allow bacteria and fungi to survive); newspaper (always roll up into balls to contribute to aeration)
3 activators: specific weeds or herbs like borage, stinging nettle, yarrow, tansy, chamomile; coffee grounds
Layer them up 30 parts of carbon to 1 part nitrogen remembering that egg cartons and newspaper are 100 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen; straw and sawdust are 500 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen. Water in well, and cover with a tarpaulin. It'll be ready in 2-3 weeks.