How To Compost Frugally Plus Natural Gardening

How to compost without spending much

How to compost without spending much. You may not want to believe this, but best compost isn't really natural. You can easily help out nature at little expense.

Nature Doesn't Hurry

Books always enthuse about how organic compost grows under the cover of natural woods. That's great if you don't hunger for the best compost and don't mind waiting five or ten years.

If you pamper nature with superior conditions you'll get superior compost in days not years.

Organic Gardening Compost

In organic gardening we can't wait ten years for adequate compost, so we help Nature along, by providing ideal balanced compostables and ventilation/humidity.

Do you really want the best compost? It depends on your situation.

What is important to you in this list?

* Speed of composting

* Quality of composting

* Amount of effort involved

* Cost of tools

* Neighbors proximity

* Your stamina

It is up to you to use your own abilities and the size of your garden and location in the world to get compost that is best for your needs.

If you want a composter for a flat with a balcony, for your kitchen compost, your decisions about quality and quantity will be very different from a horticulturalist wanting to manage ten acres.

Ingenuity

Ah yes, you can't compost without compost bins. Really?!

If your gardening is on your balcony, you might need a worm compost bin, but if you have some land, why not make a compost stack? The outside will dry too much, but it will start to heat up when you have a 1 yard cube (or 1 metre cube) if you have the right conditions. It can dry out too much or become soggy. In Australia we don't have bears, so I've successfully put dead hens into stacks made that way. You build a stack by doing the corners first, then build the sides between the corners, then if the center ever gets too low, add a little. The rule is to "keep the corners high" and then the sides. That way your compost heap won't fall down.

Can you get spoiled Alfalfa (Lucerne) bales? Build walls of bales and fill in with compost material. Look for used stuff in the roadside waste disposal. An old formica kitchen table would make a perfect wall for a compost bin.

You can make worm bins with concrete slabs... Worms live in the top 6 ins of compost and stay away from light, so you need a cover. You also need a drainage system to catch the worm liquid compost.

Do you need a kitchen fork, or a garden fork, or a front-end loader to do your work? Suit yourself. I have three compost bins and a couple of compost stacks.

The best compost is made in the shortest time because you are helping Nature. But do you need the best compost?

How to compost for you - are you fit enough for the heavy garden work for instance?

by: David McDaniels

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