How to Compost Soil

Making your own compost is a very easier process than you may think. With a simple process, you can recycle most of your organic household and garden waste and also can improve your garden’s soil at the same time. It’s an amazing sustaining way to help the environment.

Composting naturally starts in the kitchen. There is a wide range of scraps that can be composted; everything can’t be used. Vegetables, fruits, cooked rice, fresh herbs, coffee grounds, cooked pasta, crushed eggshells, tea leaves ( no tea bags ), cereal, bread, state crackers, shells of peanuts, oatmeal, used napkin papers, paper towels, cows manure, horses manure, cows manure, chicken manure and rabbits manure can use as scraps. Other scraps like dead flowers, plain brown cardboard, and clothes dryer fur can also be used.

Compost requires three important ingredients for the miracle to happen. They are named as Green material, Brown material, and sufficient moisture. Green material is high in nitrogen. It is mentioned as kitchen scraps like coffee grounds, fruit cores, peeling, and eggshells. Any type of kitchen waste that is not greasy or any meat can be easily composed. Only barnyard animals, not any manure: not the cat and dog waste), leaves, grass clippings, and weeds are also green material. If we talk about Brown material is high in carbon. Sawdust, Paper, twigs, small branches, straw all are included in this group. You may not think that the stuff have anything to offer your compost but really the do. Nitrogen to carbon, the ration perfectly works out to be equal parts of both. Kitchen scraps and cornstalks can also get added.

Water is the main key ingredient in a successful compost pile. Without any moisture, the pile will take long time to do anything, and if it’s dry, it will not breakdown. If your pile is too damp, it will become greasy, and smell will break out as the ratio of bad bacteria offsets the good. It would help if you had it to keep wet but not drenched wet. If you do not get proper rain to serve, then dump a bucket over it once a week to keep things moving. You will see that your compost pile is perfectly all right if it becomes hot in the central. This is vital to disinfect the compost and kill the weed seeds or bad viruses that may be present in it. The heat is your evidence that the ratio is working for the compost pile.

You should try to add brown and green matter in layers, and do not make any layer too thick. If you put the excess green matter, compost may sludgy and smelly. If you add too much brown matter, then it won’t break down easily. So, a perfect balance of the two can help composting ensue rapidly.

Compost has a wide range of advantages when it’s used in your garden. It swaps nutrients that have been exiled during a growing season; it also progresses soil structure and raises the amount of oxygen which is obtainable to plants. Compost improves humidity retaining, enhances earthworm movement, and improves fertilizer use by plants. For best result, compost must be dug into the soil. If you plant directly into compost, then it can burn the plant roots.