If you’ve been seeking ways to take your garden to the next level, here’s a tip: Begin composting this fall for the spring. Nowadays, composting made easy!
Take the necessary steps now, and by springtime, you’ll transform your garden and kitchen waste into an organic, abundant material that will aid you in growing healthier plants.
Benefits of Compost
Compost is the secret to a bountiful and beautiful garden since it can resolve a lot of gardening problems. It loosens clay soil by altering the texture for improved draining. Also, it enhances the water-holding capability of sandy soil.
Compost enriches soil fertility since it hosts microorganisms that sustain all forms of animal life and plants.
Compost piles at the back of a garden
The secret to composting success is equalizing four vital elements: oxygen, nitrogen (green things), moisture, and carbon (brown things). Though it may sound confusing, composting is just managing a procedure that would occur naturally if you just flung everything in a pile and left it there.
What to Put in a Compost Sack
Begin with crushed, dry leaves, shredded cardboard, or crumpled paper for drainage at the base. This is the carbon-rich, brown layer.
Add green waste like coffee grounds, eggshells, lawn clippings, and vegetable peelings to the compost sack. Don’t put in over 6 inches of green waste at a time and dig kitchen scraps into the pile.
Turn the compost periodically to speed the composting. Use a long broom, shovel, pitchfork, or hoe to combine the materials. Don’t allow the compost to dry out.
Cut up the items before adding them to the compost sack, so they break down faster. Use a shovel, clippers, or mulching lawn mower to chop material into around two-inch bits.
Add a compost activator or soil for even quicker results. Keep putting in brown material (lint, straw, dead leaves, shredded paper) with green materials (coffee grounds, grass clippings, eggshells, leaf trimmings, vegetable peelings). Avoid composting bones, meat, fat, cheese, or chemically treated yard waste.
If you are unsure what to add to your compost, contact your local tree service company for suggestions. Or, you can stop by and pick up some organic compost already made.
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