Garden Compost Gardening Nursery Landscaping Guide
Garden Compost Pile In Your Backyard
By Pixie Matthews
Garden compost in your garden, is a natural fertilizer without
all the chemicals you get in a chemical fertilizer. You can make
your own garden compost with a compost pile or compost bins in
your backyard, or buy organic garden compost from your local garden
nursery.
Making your own compost, allows you to make nutrients for your
garden, to help your fruit and vegetable plants grow. As every
gardener knows, you need to add nutrients to your soil, especially
if the soil lacks nutrients for growing plants. It is easy to
make your own natural garden fertilizer using green waste and
food scraps.
Reducing Food Waste By Creating Garden Compost
You can reduce the amount of food scraps you send off to land
fill, by adding them onto your compost pile. You can add yard
clippings, fruit, vegetables and left over food onto your compost
pile.
These are the steps you can take to help reduce the amount of
waste being sent to landfills, by creating useful nutrients with
garden compost.
Saving Money With Your Own Garden Compost Pile
The focus lately has been on green and sustainable solutions
for the twenty first century. It’s hard to argue with the fight
against the climate crisis, but you might be like me. The fight
I have right now is against the bills crisis.
I’m having a tough time making ends meet, and I’m supposed to
spend more money on something like solar panels? There are ways
to "go green" and actually save money. Yes, you read
that correct. If you start your own garden compost pile, you can
actually save money.
Collecting Organic Materials To Create A Nutrient Rich Fertilizer
A garden compost pile uses all sorts of organic materials to
create a great and nutrient rich fertilizer. Garden compost, as
it’s called can be used to spread about your yard, your garden
or your vegetable garden. How does food trash become fertilizers?
A variety of worms, bacteria and micro-organisms turn yard clippings,
fruit and vegetable peels and cores and left over food into garden
compost. They digest it, mix it together and the result is a dark
colored crumbly pile of organic matter that makes the best fertilizer
you can imagine.
Avoiding Chemically Based Fertilizers
Creating your own garden compost is a "green" alternative
for a number of reasons. Most fertilizers that are purchased at
home and garden stores are chemically-based. These chemical fertilizer
factories pollute and ship out their fertilizer.
Their carbon footprints are through the roof! Making your own
garden compost however requires no chemicals and is carbon-neutral.
Furthermore, the food and yard waste you use to create your garden
compost isn’t going to the landfills anymore - an additional environmental
bonus!
Fast And Healthy Growth In Your Garden
Garden compost can be the foundation for a brand new vegetable
or herb garden. Herbs and vegetables are very easy to grow as
it is, and a healthy pile of garden compost will insure it grows
fast and healthy as well.
To start your own garden compost you really only need a barrel
outside, a few cubic feet of dirt to start and your organic food
waste. Put the egg shells, grass clippings, banana peels or whatever
other yard or kitchen waste in a layer, top with dirt and just
wait.
Keep your pile a little wet but not soggy. The garden compost
should begin to heat up from all of the decomposition that is
going on. Make sure that you keep mixing in dirt and organic waste
and turning the garden compost over once a week. You’ll have a
healthy batch of garden compost in no time at all!
Buying Organic Garden Compost From Your Local Nursery
If you do not have the time and patience to create your own garden
compost, you can buy organic garden compost from many nurseries.
I have found the price of the organic compost much lower than
the chemical fertilizers, so you can save on the cost of fertilizer
by buying garden compost from your nursery.
Growing your vegetable plants in your own garden, allows you
to pick garden fresh fruit and vegetables to use in your meals
on the same day. If you do not use chemical fertilizers and other
chemicals in your garden, then you may have an organic garden.
Many people are keeping themselves busy with an organic garden
in their backyard and enjoy the more natural flavors of freshly
picked fruit and vegetables.
With an organic garden, you can grow tomatoes, peppers, herbs
and many other fruit and vegetables. You can even grow organic
lemons and oranges on miniature trees, which do not take much
space in your yard, as the trees are rather small, but have plenty
of fruit.
These days, there are many areas of your yard, you can use to
make garden compost.
About the Author:
Pixie Matthews has written a number of articles on gardening and
landscaping including Organic
Vegetable Gardening, Vegetable
Gardening Tips, Spring
Vegetable Gardening, Compost
For Your Vegetable Garden, Vegetable
Gardening Tricks.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Little Known Gardening Facts....
How do I build a compost heap?
There are plenty of compost
plans on the internet and do-it-yourself websites.
Most people simply create a pile in one corner of
their lot and create their compost heap there. But
you want to be careful where you place your compost
heap. It will need shade but will still need a little
bit of daylight.
The area will have to be kept moist and you will want to keep
it away from the house and the neighbor’s house so that the smell
does not become a neighborhood issue. This is especially true
if you use pet or animal waste.
Rotting food will attract unwanted animals that will rummage
through the pile scattering the decomposing material everywhere
so be careful how you store your compost heap and what you place
in it depending on what type of area in which you live.
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