How to Make Compost – Useful Tips
Any gardener who likes gardening the organic way would definitely opt for organic compost instead of using chemical or commercially available fertilizers. It is so because the vegetables and fruits that are grown using chemical fertilizers will not be healthy as they would carry chemicals too.
There are various benefits of making organic compost. Any person can learn how to make compost. By learning the method, the gardener saves huge amounts as it avoids the necessity to buy chemical fertilizers. The continuous use of organic compost is known for restoring the soil fertility naturally and enables a person to grow a wide variety of vegetables and fruits in a healthy manner. Organic composting is very easy actually as most of the work is carried out by Mother Nature itself. The person who is creating it should only add the right type of ingredients in the right proportion and should be mixed at right intervals.
When thinking about how to make compost, one might also wonder what goes in to it. Actually three major types of ingredients are used. One is the green color organic waste matter that is nitrogen rich, the brown color organic waste matter that is carbon rich, air and water. The green color organic waste matter includes peels of vegetables, fruits, kitchen scraps and other waste from the kitchen (except greasy and meat products). The green color waste can also include manure of animals in the farm (including poultry). But care should be taken not to introduce cat and dog waste in the compost as they might carry bacterial infestations. The brown color organic waste can include cardboard, paper, sawdust, twigs, branches (smaller in size) and wood shavings. Air circulation is very important as it fastens the composting process. Water should be added in the right quantities to the compost heap so that it is not too dry or too wet.
When learning how to make compost, it can be created in a bin or tumbler or even outdoors. It all depends on the available space. When composting, care should be taken to add equal quantities of brown matter and green matter. Manure or garden soil can be added to make the composting process fast. Water should be added at correct intervals just enough to moisten the compost mixture. The compost heap or pile should be turned on and off so that air circulates properly. Otherwise it can be left to decompose all by itself and in about two to six months’ time the organic compost would be ready to use.
