Composting is a fantastic way to help replenish garden soil, reduce landfill and save money by reducing the need to buy fertilizers.
Composting has always been a favorite way to recycle garden waste, and now with new composting technology being introduced it is even quicker to turn garden waste into a rich additive for the flower bed.
How to Make Compost.
There are three basic ways to make compost. Compost heaps. Compost Bins and Rotating Compost tumblers. So what are the benefits of each method of composting?
Compost heaps involve simply placing all of the material to be composted in a heap and let time take its course.
Compost Bins are a little like compost heaps but with a few refinements. By constructing a bin compost is contained and will generate more heat, this hastens the composting process as well as making things look a little neater. Many gardeners have a number of bins so that they can turn the compost from one bin to another and also have compost at different stages of decomposition. New style bins with aerobic .... are now on the market, it is believed that these bins hasten the process.
Compost tumblers are probably the fasted and cleanest way to turn garden waste into compost. By rotating the sealed bin the composting process is much quicker. Compost tumblers are also sealed, so vermin do not become a problem.
What can you Compost?
Composting leaves and grass, kitchen scraps such as vegetable peelings and fruit scraps, leaves, grass or lawn clippings. Chipped or mulched branches.
Tea leaves, tea bags and Coffee grounds.
Egg shells. Vacuum cleaner dust.
Shredded paper.
What can't you compost?
Meat and dairy products. Dog droppings, or droppings of any other meat eating animals. Bones.
Large limbs or branches.
It is also worth looking at WORM FARMS as a means of recycling garden and household waste.
Composting is one of the basic activities in any well maintained garden. Composting systems and techniques vary greatly, but all composting systems have one aim, to convert organic waste into rich compost designed to replenish and improve soil structure.
