Convert your yard, garden and kitchen waste into soil building compost for essential nutrients for your garden.
If you have never tired composing here are some quick tips to get you started:
1. If your local community offers a compost option to your local garbage pickup service this is an easy option to get you started. Sign up for the service and they will pick up all your yard debris and kitchen compost and compost them for you at a community compost area.
a. All your yard clippings can go into a compost bin
b. All your kitchen waste can go into a compost bin
c. If your area allows you can also put all soiled paper, pizza boxes, paper cups, paper napkins, and waxed paper in the compost bin
2. If your community does not offer a curb side composting program you can start your own backyard composting. The Groundwater Foundation has some good tips.
a. Buy a small kitchen compost bin or use a bucket. Fill it with your kitchen food scraps. Designate a space in your yard or community area that can be used for a compost pile. Begin dumping your compost there or in a large compost receptacle. Find ideas at Clean Air Gardening.
b. If you choose this route find tips for tools used to rotate the compost and how long the compost needs to sit and decompose before using it for your garden and plants for fertilizer at Composting101.com. Note: Keep meat and dairy scraps out of your backyard compost so you don’t invite unwanted animals to your backyard compost pile.
Once you have achieved finished compost, you can add it to the soil any time of year without the fear of burning plants or polluting water. The benefits of compost are numerous. It builds good soil structure; enables soil to retain nutrients, water, and air; protects against drought; helps maintain a neutral pH, and protects plants from many diseases commonly found in the garden. It also feeds earthworms and other microbial life in the soil. In general, it doesn't matter what kind of soil you have. All soils can be improved with the addition of compost. 1
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