To get started, fill your Compost Sak™ bins with leaves and/or grass clippings from your garden. You will notice how fast composting works by how fast the leaves drop down and compress. Keep filling the compost bins, as decomposing happens. Put your kitchen scraps in, along with the leaves and grass clippings from your garden. Be sure to bury the kitchen scraps (food). Do not leave food scraps out in a way that might attract critters. We have found the best way to turn your garden composter is with a small pitchfork or any long handle, such as a broom handle. Insert the broom handle and push it up in a shovel motion. The stirring motion mixes up the garden composting leaves nicely without getting caught on anything. Do not strain too hard in mixing, as the mix is composting anyway.
Once you notice compost coming to the top of your bins, it is time to start a new Compost Sak. The ideal use of your garden composter is to have two going at the same time. When the first Compost Sak™ starts to look full, stop adding anything to it, and start filling the second garden compost bins. Everything in the first Sak will quickly be garden compost. It will be heavy so don’t try to move it. Shovel it into a wheel barrel or move what you need with a bucket. You may be able to roll the composter to your garden area. Keep in mind that a Compost Sak™ filled with compost will be very heavy.
To start your second Compost Sak™, you may want to peel off the top layer of garden fill from the first Compost Sak™. This will leave only compost, which you could use immediately in your garden.
After dumping the compost, you can re-use the Compost Sak™ bins. The product is guaranteed for one year, but you should get many years of use from the Compost Sak™.