Organic Garden Composting
What do you do with your vegetable scraps? Don’t wrap them up and throw them away. A better option would be to make some space in your garden for a compost bin or heap.
Turn your vegetable scraps and grass clippings into compost that can be added to your garden once it has decomposed affording your garden soil an organic boost.
Old tired fruit and vegetables that are past their prime and are starting to deteriorate can be composted. Grass clippings, stale eggs, Used egg shells, stale bread, old flour and flour products, shredded newspaper (don’t go too overboard with paper) uneaten food scraps excluding meat and even dog droppings. You can also add horse or cow manure to your compost heap thus introducing further nutrients.
You will need to have a hose long enough to reach your compost bin or heap because the composting materials need to be kept moist. The addition of garden lime, used occasionally, will help in the decomposition process. The decomposition of the contents of your compost bin or heap will attract garden worms that add aeration plus the nutrients contained within their castings to further benefit your compost.
I have read that a large wheelbarrow is ideal for composting. Being made of steel it is a lot sturdier than the plastic compost bins and it allows you free access to get a garden fork into the compost for turning it over and further aerating and redistributing of the contents. A wheelbarrow also affords you being able to wheel your compost to where you want it to be dug into gardens.
If you add pumpkin, watermelon and tomato seeds to your open compost heap you may be fortunate enough to have a pumpkin or water melon vine and tomato plants take root enabling you to pick fresh produce from your own garden.
Should you be lucky enough to have a larger property on which you keep laying hens and manure can be placed in a large bucket of water and can be used for watering your garden and pot plants at the same time as supplying them with totally organic fertilizer. Or, if you wish, just add it to your compost heap and when you turn the contents over with your garden fork the chook manure will be evenly distributed to allow its nutrients to permeate throughout your compost.
