Easy steps to Compost
This is becoming more and more obvious these days that we need to recycle as much as we can, and anyone who has a garden has a head start and can make a big contribution. For many novice gardeners, including myself, this can be a bit difficult to understand, but actually it was very easy – just a few very simple rules:
You need a compost bin, and the type you decide rather depends on the size your garden, but there are some options:
A purpose built plastic bin purchased from a garden center, not too expensive, and you just fill up and a few months later, you can take the compost from the small hole at the bottom.
Or, if you can use a saw and some nails, you can create a wood plank fence, three feet square – or you can buy ready-made – and cover it with a piece of old carpet to keep off the worst weather.
What you can compost:
- All vegetables and raw fruit skin
- Tea bag, tea leaves and coffee grounds
- Skin eggs
- Death rates from home
- And from the garden, soft prunings
- Spending a blanket of plants, dry leaves, grass mowings
- Spent compost from hanging baskets or containers
- Some materials such as shredded pape Dryer
- The rabbit and guinea pig bedding.
The only thing you have to be careful about is to mix different kinds of materials, if you have too many grass clippings a large mass, they will turn wet and slippery, or if there is too much paper and prunings, it will be too dry. So watch, especially if you use a wooden fence, and mixing it with a fork occasionally.
What NOT to compost:
- All meat and bone products; bread, cooked food – this will attract pests
- Dog or cat waste
- Woody materials – that takes too long to compost
- Weeds – it can ‘infect’ your compost with the seeds
- Everything that is non-biodegradable.
And because you will not always feel like a trip to the compost when wet or cold or any time you peel vegetables why not keep lidded container with rear doors that you can fill and then take a trip to the compost bin every one or two days?
During the period of time – 3 months to 1 year, depending on conditions – all these things will be split into fragile beautiful dark brown compost, you can fork into your beds and borders. It makes the soil conditioner is very good and can be used as fertilizer surface, helping conserve moisture and prevent weeds.
You also can change the fallen leaves into wonderful compost. Sweep all the leaves from your yard – you may have to do this several times during the autumn – and collect them from the border. Putting them all into a black garbage bag, sprinkle with water, put some holes in the area over with a fork, tie the top, and leave it in the corner for about a year. What you end up with is known as the leaf-mold.
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