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Tips For Beginning Composting Article
Tips for Beginning Composting
from: Beverly SaltonstallCompost is an outstanding additive for your home garden or flower bed and is also the finest mulch and soil supplements that a gardener can use to improve the soil in their garden. Best of all it is economical and simple to make. You may not realize it, but you have all the items that are required to make great compost right in your home. Getting started with making your own compost is easy because there are many places where you can go to find some composting tips.
Composting Tips – The Benefits of Compost
If you've ever started your own garden or flower bed for the first time, you know how expensive it can be in the beginning. Purchasing potting soil, fertilizers, top soil and other additives, quickly adds up in cost. The fact is that you do not need to go through all this expense. Armed with the correct composting tips, you can make your own compost and save money.
If you have ever done any reading on composting, you undoubtedly know the benefits that compost provides for gardens. Compost increases the soils ability to retain water and loosens hard soil. It also improves the quality, structure and aeration of the soil and you will always have a steady supply of naturally occurring potassium, nitrogen and phosphors going into the soil.
Composting Tips – Getting Started
Getting started with composting is a gradual process and you may not notice a big difference in your garden the first year, but each year it will get better and better. Listed here are some easy composting tips you may find very valuable if you are just learning about composting.
Most kitchen scraps should not be thrown in the trash, but should be added to your compost pile.
Most compost bins are kept outdoors, but keeping a smaller one in the kitchen is more convenient. When the small compost container gets full, it is then emptied into the larger one outside.
Heat, which is essential to your compost pile, builds up in large compost piles, but ideally, a compost pile should be no larger than three feet by three feet.
A cover is needed on the compost bin, especially the one in your kitchen, to prevent odors from entering the room.
Avoid throwing meat or bones into the compost as they will not decompose well.
Coffee grounds and the coffee filter, fruit and vegetables and egg shells make excellent compost
Composting Tips – Getting More Information
Once you have made the decision to get started with a compost pile, you will have many questions, and fortunately there are many sources to get information. A trip to your local library will usually get you all the information you may need, but the Internet is another source for obtaining valuable composting tips. Many areas have a local extension service. This governmental agency offer many information that is specific to your local area.
Composting Tips
Be sure to keep your compost pile aerated either with a compost aerator or by hand.
For the compost pile to heat up and break down, it needs to be periodically turned to get the oxygen it needs.
Whenever adding anything new, you will need to mix it in with the existing compost.
Be sure your compost pile is kept moist. If it is too dry, it will not break down properly, but on the other hand, you do not want it to become too wet either.
A good mixture of bedding materials are essential. The more variety you have, the quicker it will break down. Having only one type of material, such as lawn clippings will delay decomposition and will not make for good compost. Mixing leaves, grass clippings and food scraps make the best mix.
Getting started with composting can be a rewarding hobby. It will be of great benefit to your garden; it will save you much money and will certainly help the environment.
Beverly Saltonstall is and environmental writer. Be sure and visit her blog for interesting posts about recycling.
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