Composting For Beginners: A Must In Your Organic Garden!
Here is your introduction to composting for beginners. Having a compost pile of some sort is definitely a must in an organic garden and a definit benefit in any garden.
How come?
All the weeds and plants in the garden contain nutrients and organic matter, and when removing the former you also remove the latter from your garden. If you continue to throw it away you will by and by rob your soil of nutrients and organic matter. By composting the weeds and plants you will instead keep the nutrients and recycle them to your garden’s benefit.
What biodegradable waste can I put in the compost?
In a simple compost pile you can put any plant residues except leaves and other plant parts contaminated with troublesome plant diseases. Those are better to burn or actually throw in the garbage can. Branches and the likes need to go through a compost mill before you put them in the compost pile.
How do I set up the compost, pile or container?
The simplest way is to put everything in a pile in a hidden corner of your garden. Turn it over once in a while to add air and to mix decomposed matter with intact such. This kind of compost pile can look slightly untidy and tends to stretch out on the ground.
If you purchase a composting bin with separate compartments, you can fill one compartment at a time and leave the other to decompose. Then you will have compost ready to use separated from the newly added material.
Qiuck composting
If you want to add food scraps, and thereby more nitrogen, to your compost you need a closed compost bin. To make the process fast and easy you can buy a spinning bin, that you easily spin after every addition of material to add air and mix the newer and older material well. This will speed up the process and get you a well degraded compost in just a few weeks.
To be able to utilize all the biodegradable waste from your garden and kitchen, you should have a compost pile for your garden residues and a closed bin for your food scraps. Then you will recycle almost all the organic matter in your household.