One of the fastest ways to see your garden improve in
both productivity and beauty is to starting learning how to make
compost. Making great compost is probably one of the most misunderstood
concepts in gardening. It's really quite easy to make compost. But how?
When
we first started out learning how to grow a garden one of the first
things we learned about was making compost. There just seemed to be so
much controversy about which method worked best though. Should we buy a
plastic composter? Do they work? Do we need to aerate the compost?
There just seemed to be so many questions.
After some thought we
bought a simple plastic composting unit and we set to work making
compost for our garden. All of our kitchen waste and grass clippings
and leaves- everything that we thought would decompose went into the
composter.
Well, the unit soon filled up and we had no room to
put our kitchen scraps. What could we do now? We decided to buy another
composting unit... and the same thing happened with it. We produced
material for compost much faster than the unit could make it.
Our
family decided that we need some help, so we started researching the
subject of compost. What we found out about the composting process was
rather interesting.
We discovered we should not put leaves in the
composter; they break down with completely different bacteria forming a
great garden additive called leaf mold. Sounds yucky, but it really
helps. But back to how to make compost.
Also, we learned that the
compost should be layered and garden soil added every now and then to
keep the composter performing properly.
But
the single most important thing we learned was that our goal of
producing garden soil through composting was wrong. What we really
should be setting our sights on is producing colloidal humus. A colloid
is a mixture of solid and water that can be readily used by a plant as
food. We discovered the secret to making great compost some time ago.
Just follow the link for more information.
Making
organic compost is well worth it in our estimation. Our garden has
never looked better and best of all our health has improved
dramatically.
It did turn out to be rather simple to make compost
and just a slight shift in our goals and how we accomplished them made
all the difference.
Our whole family just loves gardening and
learning how to make compost has really enhanced our experience. It
seems strange that just a simple shift in our goal of what we were
trying to accomplish should make such a great big difference. We really
do love making organic compost.
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