How can I start a compost pile without creating a bin?

Unless you want to be out there turning it over every couple of days with a pitchfork, doing so w/o a composter will just STINK and break your back!

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Pound some stakes into the ground and put chicken wire around it and secure with zip ties. Leave an opening so that you can easily turn the pile. I don't use anything, just use a corner against the fence that my winter squash goes over to put my excess shredded leaves and cut grass.

I don't add food waste and it is way up at the top fence at the top of two steep tiers. As far from the house as it can go. What little food waste I have is not worth the trek up those two hills to put it in. What food I have left over goes to my Mom who is 97 years old and still lives on her own so that she doesn't have to do anything but warm up food and still have something other than frozen dinners.

Put down a big blue/silver tarp or else you'll get a black lawn spot that takes years to get back to normal

Direct Compost -my grandma taught me this tip years ago and it's amazing. To learn more check out my blog Garden Up Green. Click Garden/Dirt Simple I have two posts on how it works.

I just made a big pile in the corner of my garden. No bin.