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Easy Organic Compost

By: Tom Johnson

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One of the best ways to ensure a bountiful harvest from your garden is to use plenty of organic compost. You can be sure that you're using a safe way of growing your garden. The recycling of organic waste is one of the best things a gardener can do.

The starting point is plenty of carbon, which is the foundation of a good compost. Get it going by using brown material such as shredded newspaper, dead flowers, dried leaves and straw. A lot of people forget to add these important ingredients, but you won't.

Green waste that's high in nitrogen is next. You should throw all of your kitchen waste, grass clippings and green garden clippings into your heap. Your kitchen waste can consist of all your green leftovers, fruit and vegetable peelings, but no meat!

To get your compost to start decomposing, it's very important to add ordinary soil from your garden to the heap as your next step, this will top off your pile.

So far you've started with a layer of brown waste to which you've added some green waste and then some garden soil. Now you start the process again with another layer of brown material. At this time you should also add some water to dampen your compost, but make sure it's exactly that... damp! It should be just moist, not soaking wet!

What you're trying to achieve by adding these layers is a pile about 3 feet high and 3 feet wide, so keep adding your scraps and waste until it reaches this size. Also the ratio needs to be approximately one part green waste to three parts brown for optimum results.

You will need to turn your compost with a garden fork to aid the decomposition. As you turn, you want to move the stuff from the center to the outside and the outer material to the middle. You should do this every couple of weeks at least.

The moisture level is critical. It should be damp but never soggy and make sure you don't let it dry out. Allowing it to dry out stops the decomposition process in it's tracks. You should see steam rising from your pile as you turn it, this indicates that it's all decomposing properly.

You can accelerate the process by adding earthworms to your compost pile if you want to, they are readily available at any fishing bait store. The truth is that the resident worms in your garden will quickly find your pile anyway.

To keep your pile tidy you can build or buy a bin. This keeps your garden looking neat and stops your pile spreading out too much. To make the job of turning your compost heap over easier, you can buy a rotating bin that you simply turn to mix your compost.

Your compost is fully decomposed when it has a sweet earthy smell and looks almost black, its now ready to be used. Start by mixing it into your garden soil to add nutrients and keep doing this until you've covered your entire garden, then keep building up your soil over the years. It also makes excellent potting mix for your indoor plants, you don't need to add anything extra.

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