Composing a Garden Compost

Exercising garden composting is an easy and sustainable way to help your garden flourish. Instead of using chemical fertilizers that are harmful to the environment and may have adverse effects on your plants, use the garden composting method instead. Garden composting is very easy and it will also help you reduce the waste that you send into a landfill.

Ironically, garden composting can be done not only in large gardens but also in pots for your pot garden if you lack the resources of an actual garden area. For garden composting you will first need a system for collecting materials you will be using for compost.

You will need to segregate your kitchen waste so that anything that is wet and is biodegradable should go into a container, which you will later use to add to your garden comporting exercise. You will also need to collect leaves and other organic material from your garden to add to your garden composting.

Next you will need to choose where to make your compost. You can dig a hole on the ground or as mentioned earlier, you can do garden composting in pots and when the compost is ready, you can simply and easily plant in these pots whatever you would like to grow. For the purpose of this article however, we will be using the traditional method of garden composting.

For this you will need to dig a hole on the ground with a size that is dependent on how much garden composting materials you are thinking of putting in it. To speed up the composting process you can purchase microorganisms that are meant to help in the garden composting process.

Anyway, once your hole is dug you will need to layer the hole with the garden composting materials you have gathered. First fill the hole with some coal then with some saw dust then layer dry and wet materials in. Cover the hole with more soil but not too much that it cannot breathe.

Remember that garden composting is dependent on aerobic processes that break down organic and biodegradable materials to transform it into compost that can be used to fertilize your garden. Keep your garden composting project damp and wet to help the break down of materials happen faster. Don't worry, it will not smell of decay if you do it properly.

You will know that your garden composting is ready for use when after some weeks you go back to it and see that the compost materials you used are gone and completely incorporated into a soft soil composition. If you are going to use your compost for growing flowers and other non edible plants, you might want to consider using animal manure from your pets to add into your garden composting.

Of course if you want to plant something edible, like fruits and vegetables, it might be better for you to stick with kitchen and garden waste. However, animal manure added to your garden composting will do wonders for plants like rose bushes and the like.

You can also have more than one garden composting project in your garden. In fact, you will really need several holes to make your composts in so that you can always make use of the garden and kitchen waste that your house produces.

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