How To Compost Inexpensively plus Natural Gardening

Author: David McDaniels

How to compost without much expense. It's Contrary to popular belief, but best compost isn't really found in nature. You can rapidly) improve on nature at little layout.

Nature Is A Slowcoach

Books always rave about how unassisted compost grows under the shade of natural trees or bushes. That's OK if you don't need the best compost and don't mind waiting up to 10 years.

If you boost nature with optimum conditions you'll get superior compost while you're still young.

Organic Gardening Compost

In sustainable gardening we won't wait 5 years for useable compost, so we speed things up, by supplying ideal ingredients and ventilation/humidity.

Do you really need the ideal compost? It depends on your garden.

What is important to you in this list?

* Time of composting

* Superiority of composting

* Amount of work involved

* Expense of tools

* Neighbors attitude

* Your physical fitness

It is up to you to use your own abilities and the size of your garden and local weather to get compost that is best for your needs.

If you want composting for a flat with a balcony, for your kitchen compost, your decisions about quality and quantity will be very different from a horticulturalist wanting to manage 5 acres.

Ingenuity

Ah yes, you can't compost without compost containers. Really?!

If your garden is on your balcony, perhaps you need a worm compost bin, but if you have a patch of ground, why not make a stack of compost? The outside will dry too much, but it will start heating when you have a 1 yard cube (or 1 metre cube) if you have the right conditions. It can get too dry or become soggy. In Australia we don't have large scavengers, so I've successfully put dead chickens into stacks like that. You build stacks by doing the corners first, then build the sides in between, then if the center ever gets too low, adding a little. The rule is to "keep the corners high" and then the sides. That way your stack won't fall down.

Can you get spoiled Alfalfa (Lucerne) bales? Build bins of bales and fill in with compost material. Look for used stuff in the roadside waste disposal. An old formica kitchen table would make a perfect wall for a compost bin.

You can make worm bins with corrugated iron... Worms live in the top 6 ins of compost and stay away from light, so you need a cover. You also need a fluid-catching arrangement to catch the worm liquid compost.

Do you need a kitchen fork, or a garden fork, or a front-end loader to do your work? That's up to you. I have three bins and a couple of compost stacks.

The highest quality compost is made in the shortest time because you work with Nature. But do you need quality rather than quantity compost?

How to compost for you - are you fit enough for the manual labor for instance?

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