Hey @bobydimitrov. I love your easy guide to composting, especially because aparently you'r full on informed about "proper" composting. But you should think about mulching as well. I.e. the grass clippings are excellent mulch for any bed (veggies or flowers). The worms will come in at night and pull all this nitrogen rich organic material into the soil and improve it strongly.
One thing I am wondering about is the color of your sifted compost. It seems quite brown for compost. Would'nt one expect black substrate coming out of a compost pile?
Keep on rocking!
Moritz
Great observation! The main reason the compost is this brown is the color of the local soil. At the end of the season we covered the pile with a few cm of soil. This also happened on the second year. Also, when we dug into the pile and reached the bottom, we found out the soil life mixed the bottom 15-20 cm of the pile with the soil underneath the pile.
So all those things combined with the fact my photo's color balance is a bit to the warm side make the sieved product brownish.
Regarding the mulch. I was planning to do a post on our lazy mulching methods as well :)
We do of course mulch as much as we can! In our new garden, all weeds are composted in place and we add straw + all scythed grass from the micro orchard.
The compost pile I describe in the post above is in our family garden, where we have still not persuaded "the elders" to mulch. So having a compost pile over there is still a massive leap forward, as otherwise they will just dump the organics in the trash.
BAM! Ok. Nothing to add here :D
Still, thank you for your comment!
Check out how Jim Kovaleski feeds his soil directly with grass clippings. Check out this video by Pete Kanaris: