Composting For A Garden : Composting For A Garden By: Tommy Davis
About Composting : About Composting Composting helps the environment by reusing materials such as food, paper, leaves and grass.
All these materials, when broken down by microbes, creates healthy soil for a garden by adding nitrogen and carbon to the soil.
Materials For Composting : Materials For Composting Only organic and non-animal products should be composted.
Things that can be composted are fruits and vegetables, grains like bread, egg shells and coffee grounds.
Things that can’t be composted are animal products such as meat and dairy not counting egg shells.
How To Compost : How To Compost Take a sealed container for collecting household scraps of food and put it in an easily accessible place like where you chop vegetables.
Set up a compost bin in your yard.
Instead of throwing away your compostable food scraps you can put them in your container.
When the containers full empty it into your compost bin.
How To Compost : How To Compost Turn compost pile frequently using a pitch fork or shovel so that it doesn’t rot in one big pile.
Make sure compost pile doesn’t get too dry or too wet; it should be a little moist.
When compost is a nice dark brown and has a somewhat sweet earthy smell mix it into the garden’s soil.
Ingredients for Compost : Ingredients for Compost Yes
Cardboard
Paper
Coffee Grounds
Coir (Cocoa Shell)
Garden Wastes
Leaves
Seafood
Mushrooms
Tree Bark
Egg Shells
Fruit
Vegetables
Seaweed
Crustacean Shells
Rock Dust
Agricultural Lime
Not Okay for Compost : Not Okay for Compost No
Chemically-Treated Wood Products
Diseased Plants
Human Waste
Meat, Bones, and Fatty Food Wastes
Pernicious Weeds (Ivy, Bindweed, Sheep Sorrel, etc.)
Pet Wastes