October 9th, 2010 • 19:10
How Do You Start A Compost Pile For Your Garden ?
Instead of using fertilizers I want to use compost to fertilize my vegtable garden.
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Instead of using fertilizers I want to use compost to fertilize my vegtable garden.
Oct 9th 2010 • 20:10
by margie
Instead of using fertilizers I want to use compost to fertilize my vegtable garden.
Oct 9th 2010 • 21:10
by Cat
Start collecting all your kitchen scraps (excluding meat and dairy). Throw them onto your pile. You can toss on grass clippings, and shredded leaves – whatever garden wastes you have. If you have a small vegetarian animal (like a rabbit or guinea pig), and you use a paper or wodd-based litter, you can dump the whole contents onto the pile. The pet manure will supercharge it!
Oct 9th 2010 • 22:10
by 23skidoo
The answers above tell about maintaining a compost more than starting one.
To start one you need a pile of organic material, leaves, grass clippings and kitchen vegetable waste perhaps. Since a compost is really just a pile of decomposing plant matter you can help it along by gathering up some rotting leaves and some dirt from near the surface of the ground and mixing this in with the pile you have made. It will rot by it’s self with out this, but this will speed it along to start. If you can’t find any, a lot of the bigger plant stores have compost starting mixes that include many of the common microbes that are in good compost.
Remember, a compost pile is really alive, in that there are hundreds of millions bacteria, fungi and even small animals living in it, doing their thing and in turn making compost. Be careful not to put things into it that may kill things, like grass clippings from a lawn that has just been sprayed etc.
Good luck.
Once the pile is working, use a shovel or pitch fork to turn it, once every few weeks if you are adding things regularly.
Oct 9th 2010 • 22:10
by Quinni
you can use anything in the compost pile. grass clippings ,leaves,your old plants and husk. Basically depends on where you live. if you google it you ll find tons of info.
Oct 9th 2010 • 23:10
by Malcolm
Use grass clippings, tree leaves, dead garden plants. You can also add table scraps(vegetables and bread-no meat). Find a good location for your pile or you can purchase a tumbler. I have a compost box that we built from plans we got free from Lowe’s web page.http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=ho…
Another we did is build a VermiCompost system. It uses paper, leaves, grass clippings, coffee grounds but most of all-earthworms. The earthworms help to break down the material by both eating and aerating the soil through burrowing. The worms put off their “castings”(manure) which is very high in nutrient value. You can also purchase worm castings and soak them in water to make “tea” for use as a liquid fertilizer. You have to sift out the worms for re-use. The worms will multiply through division to keep your project going. Just keep a screen wire top on it so that birds and wasps will not destroy your “workers”