But before you start applying your homemade compost to your plants, you need to know if it's actually ready or not. The key? Radish seeds. Using unfinished compost on your plants can harm them.

If the compost smells bad, is still warm, or you can clearly see food content, it’s probably not finished. Do not use unfinished compost in your compost tea. Unfinished compost may contain ...

The minimum size for good compost is 3-by-3-feet ... With grubby fingers he demonstrated how these unfinished bits make great mulch. The soil was moving with worms, big and small, which is ...

He also warns that putting unfinished compost on the garden can be lethal to the plants. The decomposing organic matter is giving off acetic acid (the acid in vinegar) and other acids that cause ...

A previous court order limited the amount to 20,000 cubic yards, but Uni-Dig last fall took in enough to create two piles of unfinished compost totalling 95,000 cubic yards. On Thursday ...

The training states that unfinished compost can have high ammonia content, which could burn plant roots. Unfinished compost can also consume oxygen from a plant’s root zone and inhibit root growth.

The bacteria in hot compost may compete with plants for nitrogen in the soil. Plants will look stunted and yellow. Unfinished compost also may retard germination and growth of seedlings.

Renee Michaels of Uni-Dig, attorneys and township officials appeared in court Tuesday for a contempt hearing to determine whether two piles of compost that the township says are unfinished exceed ...

Most stationary bins also have one or two doors for removing the finished compost. Or you can simply lift off the bin and relocate it, forking unfinished material from the top of the old pile back ...