compost-sun or shade

[Paul Ostrof]

Is it better to keep a compost pile in the sun or in the shade?

Paul Ostrof

[Timothy]

You generally want to keep your compost in the sun if you can. Try to treat your pile as if it were a living plant. Give it water regularly and air (flipping). Equal amounts of green and brown ( carbon and cellous) and you'll good compost in no time... Good luck.

[Sunflower]

Compost piles in the shade tend to get invaded by the roots of the tree that is providing that shade.

[Fred Garvin]

Sun.

[Pat Kiewicz]

It's best to keep a compost pile where it's convenient. That's far more important than the sun or shade issue. Build them right, and they heat from within.

Tree roots can invade from quite a distance. Once more reason to build hot pile with some sort of aeration grates underneath.

[Compostman]

I do all my composting in shade. It's cooler for me and my compost stays hot.