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The Perfect Compost Plan:
Simple Guide To Making Healthy Compost
TOM FORD
COPYRIGHT 2014
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All information contained here is meant to be taken as a guideline. The gardening experience can be different from person to person owing to different climates; soil types, plant availability etc and the advice contained herein is mentioned in a neutral manner. It is understood that the reader claims responsibility for their own actions.
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Compost is made from decomposing anything that is produced or comes from an animal or plant, also called organic waste. It is widely used in gardens for retaining nutrient levels, moisture retention and to improve the overall soil structure.
Compost not only helps your garden but is also very useful for improving the quality of environment. Organic waste, if kept in a specific environment, turns into a humus-like material (compost) with time.
Composting offers an alternative method for handling waste that is both useful and highly environment friendly. Composting reduces around 7,000 landfills of waste entering the waste stream in the United States alone!
It is no wonder then that more and more people are turning towards purchasing compost from markets, or even better, producing their own.
Composting is not a new phenomenon. It has been widely practiced since the early Roman Empire, or perhaps even before that.
Composting started by piling the organic material until the next planting season. With time, the materials decayed until they could be used with the soil. This process has obviously evolved with time and today composting is modernized and regulated.
The method relatively remains the same; you simply pile up organic materials and allow them to rot until they turn into hummus or compost. There has been a lot of debate regarding the ideal time for organic waste to turn into compost.
Of course, modern proponents for fast composting have been attempted, but composting at home uses the slow, traditional method.
Composting is a natural process that turns organic materials like vegetable scraps, grass, leaves and manure when kept under a specific environment. Ideally, composting requires moisture, warm weather and oxygen (to avoid the unpleasant odor).
Ingredients required for composting can be broken into three categories:
- Browns
- Greens
- Composting Organisms
Browns include straw, shredded paper, dead plants, sawdust from untreated wood and leaves.
Greens include manure, kitchen scraps that are non-dairy and non-meat, grass, clover, seaweed or pond algae and green weeds.
You also require a source of organisms that can assist with composting like soil, chicken, horse or cow manure, old compost or commercial compost starters.
This is just a basic overview of how composting is done. We will discuss the methods and process in detail later on.
Composting can take anywhere from three weeks to up to 12 months depending on the method that you are using and the size of your pile.
Simple hot turn composting takes around 20 days. It is the most demanding and labor intensive composting method, and thus is the fastest. You will require the right proportion of brown and green measured in a 3 x 3 pile to get the compost ready in 20 days.
The no turn pile can take anywhere from three months to twelve months to compost depending on temperature, pile composition and moisture. With a good ratio of carbon to nitrogen, or brown to green, your organic waste pile can compost in around three months.
Other methods like worm bins and black soldier fly larvae are gaining popularity recently too. They can compost anywhere from three weeks to three months.
Composting is a formula that can easily be adjusted according to your atmosphere, environment, requirements and convenience. You can either dump your organic pile in a corner and let it slowly turn into compost or go for relatively faster methods, depending on your own preferences.
The recipes mentioned in this e-book will assist you in finding a method that is both convenient and suitable for varied atmosphere and organic waste.
Composting is a cost effective and environment friendly method that reduces trash and enables you to recycle waste in an efficient and inexpensive manner.
Every year, over 230 million tons of waste is generated in the United States alone and less than 40 percent of this waste is recycled. Simply composting your compostable waste can reduce the total amount of waste produced greatly.
It is not just the process of composting that is beneficial, but compost itself is highly effective in promoting the quality of soil.
Following are a number of ways compost can help your garden and soil:
Incorporating compost into soil greatly improves the soil structure. Soil structure refers to how sand, clay, silt or other inorganic particles combine with compost or organic particles.
A good soil structure is supposed to have a crumbly structure, should be able to retain moisture, should drain well and easily turn over. Crumbly soil allows air to easily penetrate making the soil more efficient and effective. Compost works on most types of soils, especially heavy clay soils and sandy soils.
When clay soils and compost is mixed together, the compost binds the clay particles and forms larger particles that offer more space for air to penetrate. They also assist in better surface water drainage.
Compost consists of a lot of the basic nutrients that plants need for healthy growth. Most importantly, good quality compost consists of phosphorous, potassium and nitrogen and other micronutrients like copper, zinc, iron and manganese.
The fact is, most commercial fertilizers are lacking in micronutrients and thus dont offer the necessary nutritional dosage to the soil. Compost on the other hand offers all the nutrients for your plantation, and practically for free!
Different compost ingredients rot at various times as a result of which compost works as a slow-release fertilizer and keeps the soil enriched for longer. For the same reason, you need to keep your ratios under check when making compost so as to ensure that the compost consists of measured amounts of carbon and nitrogen.
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