Helping your garden with compost

All gardens can benefit from having more of the needed nutrients for the plants you are growing. Adding compost is one way to do this. Adding organic matter, that is packed with the nutrients will help your garden to really thrive. While compost can be purchased, it is easy to make on your own. Save some of that money you would have used for purchasing compost and put it back into getting some new plants or seeds.

In short, composting is basically putting organic materials into a container, and adding some water. That pile of organic matter is periodically turned over. By helping the beneficial bacteria survive and work their magic, you can get some great compost. Heat will be generated and help to break down and decompose the raw organic materials. In time, it will turn into a rich, soil like product. When it is complete, you will have no original parts of vegetables or peelings, etc, but something that has a good earthy odor to it.

Learning to make your own compost

I have been learning about making my own compost for the garden. Gardening is such a joy, but after a while you begin to see how your soil need some amending to keep up with what you are growing. For instance, one year we had the greatest crop of tomatoes, I mean it was fantastic and fun. My younger son and I had great fun going out and just picking the tomatoes and bringing them in. I never ceased to be amazed. What got my attention was the year after that, when we had a rather poor result with our tomatoes. I wondered if something had been wrong with the plants themselves, or if the summer had been especially severe, etc. Turns out it was that the soil was probably depleted from the necessary nutrients that tomatoes need. This made complete sense to me.

I already know how much money one can spend going to the local garden center, so I kind of inwardly groaned as I thought about adding some good compost and fertilizer to the list. Then I recalled that you can simply create your own great compost using certain kitchen waste that you may normally throw away. So, here is what I have learned and some tips and ideas on how to make your own compost.

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