Easiest Compost Anyone can Make

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Easiest Compost Ever..also known as Instant Compost. This is a way anyone can create compost, just blend and bury.

Do you want an beautiful, organic garden but don’t have time or space for a compost bin?  In this article I am going to show you how to make the easiest compost ever and it is ready in an instant!

Related: DIY Compost Bin You Can Build on a Budget!

Believe it or not you probably have all that you need already.

The first thing you need is blender (a food processor can work also).

how to create instant compost with things you already have, no bin or piles to turn. Your garden will love you, especially the worms!

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If you don’t have one, Amazon has some for a very reasonable price. Like this one…Basic Blender . You can also check your local big box store or even thrift stores for inexpensive options.

Now that you have your main tool it is time to add your ingredients.  I keep a plastic storage container under my sink to toss my chicken scraps into, I have it on the counter while chopping food up for our meals and then it gets tucked back under the sink until I am ready to make my liquid gold.

 There are fancier compost pails for the kitchen if that is your thing…Compost Pail.  I confess they are much prettier than mine.

Update: I now have this sitting on my counter and love it.

how to create instant compost with things you already have, no bin or piles to turn. Your garden will love you, especially the worms!

You may have noticed some chicken bones in this batch but I have to take those out, they won’t blend up well and I remove the coffee filter.  I put all my fruit/veggie scraps into the blender along with the coffee grounds.

I put some water in the plastic container that held them, I fill it about half full or a little less. I swoosh it around to get all the goodness sticking to the sides.

how to create instant compost with things you already have, no bin or piles to turn. Your garden will love you, especially the worms!

I turn the blender on and as the blades are whirling I add the water through the hole in the lid.   I keep adding water until the mixture is whirling nicely.

how to create instant compost with things you already have, no bin or piles to turn. Your garden will love you, especially the worms!

Soon all the bits and pieces have been blended into a nice slurry of garden goodness.  (Despite its rather grungy look it doesn’t smell bad at all).  I call this black gold for the garden and the easiest compost you have ever made.

how to create instant compost with things you already have, no bin or piles to turn. Your garden will love you, especially the worms!

Take it out to your garden and dig a hold or narrow trench, you can do this near your plants if you wish.  It should be maybe about 4 to 6 inches deep.

how to create instant compost with things you already have, no bin or piles to turn. Your garden will love you, especially the worms!

Pour your liquid gold (aka: easiest compost ever) into your hole or trench and bury it with the dirt you removed.

how to create instant compost with things you already have, no bin or piles to turn. Your garden will love you, especially the worms!

It may not look pretty but your plants will love you and soon they will be blooming and growing in abundance, making you look like the best gardener on the block.

Why does this work so well?  First off, the nutrients are available almost immediately. The blender did most of the work breaking down your ingredients.  If the scraps had been added to the ground as they looked before blending nature would have had to go through a process of doing the breaking down.

Soon you will have a garden as gorgeous as this…

Don’t worry, coffee grounds are not acidic as some believe.  The acidity has already been drained out of them by the brewing action when you made your morning cup of joe.  Coffee grounds being acidic is one of the gardening wives tales that get bandied about but is not based on fact.

I wish you Happy Gardening!

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11 Comments

  1. Thank you, Donna for joining me here and letting me know it was helpful. I am all for making things easier.

  2. donna babbitt says:

    brilliant idea for compost. need all the help I can get. am a recent widow, my husband was a wonderful gardener. I am trying to become one.

    the only thing i know is eggshells for roses. I always watched your blog for painting, am now revisiting
    gardening blogs.

    thanks so much. d

  3. Bettie Scott says:

    I need to do this with my kitchen scraps, but My Hens will not be happy as they love the scraps of veggies etc. :0 🙂

  4. I have tons and tons of worms, the red wigglers especially. I have areas where I have extra coffee grounds so I will test this Spring to see if there are less in those spots.

  5. Yes, you do. Bury it right in the dirt.

  6. do you put this down directly where you are planting?

  7. Great plan. My question is, do you have worms in your garden? I read that they don’t like coffee. And my experience of burying kitchen waste in a trench is that I don’t have worms where i have coffee and tea planted. But am seeing some since started putting these wastes on the roses. In England they use tea for roses. I use coffee for blueberries and the blue hydrangea. Your thoughts would be welcome.

  8. I Love your compost method! It will be so much easier to blend it all up. Thank you Thank you! I’m starting now!!!!

  9. Once buried I don’t have any issues with critters even though we have bears, raccoons, skunks, coyotes and the like around. Believe it or not, I have even buried fish with no issues. I did not put animal fats in this one at all, I stated I removed the chicken bones. Many times my scraps go to my chickens and that is what I had planned before I decided to do this post. I have had trouble with a bear overturning my compost bin even though I never put any meat, dairy or anything like that in it, I guess it still smelled appetizing to him. 🙂

  10. i USE THAT METHOD AS WELL. bUT i DON’T PUT IN ANY ANIMAL/ANIMAL FATS AS THEY INVITE CRITTERS.

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