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How To Make Garden Compost
Learning how to make garden compost can be easy and rewarding and does not have to be complex. All you need are the ingredients and let nature takes it's course. Add in a little know how and you have the winning combination for making your own garden compost.
Why Make Your Own Compost?
Making your own garden compost is good for your garden, wallet and environment. Using our waste is a great way to recycle.Compost is the left over material that you get when organic waste items decompose. Creating a bin or pile in your backyard saves our waste from being in a landfill where they can take longer to decompose. Creating a compost pile for your garden helps the waste items to decompose faster all while recycling.
Most of the raw materials that go into your pile or bin, come directly from the yard and or garden. By using this material, we cut back on the amount of waste that we send to the landfill, and this is an excellent way to reduce yard waste while producing a valuable material for improving your soil. This is both good for the environment and good for our wallets.
Yard waste accounts for more than 20 percent of all trash in landfills and food scraps make up ten percent of your waste. You can even purchase a kitchen bin to collect your kitchen scraps.
Depending on your preferences, you can have a pile or a bin. As simple or elaborate as you want.
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Compost
What Do I Add To Make Garden Compost
The Ultimate Garden Compost should be a balance between greens and browns.Greens
* Tea bags;
* Grass cuttings;
* Vegetable peelings;
* Old flowers;
* Fruit scraps;
* Nettles;
* Coffee grounds & filter paper;
* Old bedding plants;
* Pond algae & seaweed.
Browns
* Egg shells - crush them first;
* Egg boxes;
* Cereal boxes;
* Corrugated cardboard packaging;
* Newspaper - scrunched up;
* Toilet & kitchen roll tubes;
* Garden prunings;
* Dry leaves, twigs & hedge clippings;
* Straw & hay;
* Bedding from vegetarian pets;
* Wool;
* Ashes from wood, paper or lumpwood charcoal;
* Cotton threads;
* String;
* Tumble dryer lint - from natual fibre clothes such as cotton or wool;
* Shredded paper.
"Compost your waste to have organic healthy soil for your plants."
What NOT To Put In Your Garden Compost
Some things not to use in your Garden Compost* Bones
* Grease and Oil
* Dog & Cat Manure
* Cheese
* Chicken
* Fat
* Fish scraps
* Milk
* Meat
* Noxious weeds
The Finishing Touch To Your Garden Compost
A properly made compost heap will reach a temperature of 140 degrees to 160 degrees F in one to two weeks. At this time, you will notice the pile settling-a good sign that the heap is working properly.Five to six weeks later, transfer the materials into a new pile. When doing this, turn the outside of the old heap into the center of the new pile. Add water if necessary.
The compost material should be ready to use in your yard or garden within three to four months after you first constructed the pile. A heap started in late spring can be ready for use in the autumn. Then you can start another heap in autumn for use in the spring.
ready to use compost
Compost is ready to use when it is dark, brown, and crumbly, with an earthy odor. Let it stabilize a few extra days, and screen it through a ½-inch screen if you want the finest product. To use the compost, turn your soil, apply a 1- to 3-inch layer of compost, and work it in well.
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To make compost, gather grass clippings and yard trash into a pile, mix it with water and dry molasses, and allow it to sit for a year. Make compost with tips from a professional landscaper in this free video on lawns and gardening. Expert: Bill Elzey Contact: www.showplacelawns.com Bio: Bill Elzey is the owner and manager of Showplace Lawns in Austin, Texas. Filmmaker: Todd Green
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- GrowOrganic GrowOrganic Sep 3, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
- Very informative lens! I prefer the layering method of composting, which helps speed the process along quite a bit, but any method for composting will ultimately enrich your garden. I've also heard that pouring a large bottle of cola on your compost pile when you turn it also helps the decomposition process to speed up significantly (I haven't tried that myself yet, but I think I will next time I start a pile).
Thank you again for the information!
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