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Here are a few tips to help get your compost ready:
• Give the pile a thorough mix, switching the layers around and moving the less broken-down material to the centre, where it will break down faster.
• Add newspaper or brown matter like dried leaves if the pile seems too wet and winter heavy.
• When you think it’s ready, use a screener to start sifting and sorting. Put the fines into a useable pile, and return pieces larger than a bottle cap to the compost pile.
• Rake the grass after the first cutting of the lawn and add the nitrogen-rich greens to the compost to heat it up.
• Replenish exhausted and depleted soil by digging compost into your garden beds prior to planting, or layer it on as a nourishing water-retentive mulch.