INCORPORATE COMPOSTING INTO YOUR GARDENING AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN TO IMPROVE YOUR SOIL AND INCREASE YOUR VEGETABLE YIELD!
In this mini guide book, you will learn the basics of composting and several different techniques you can use to handle your kitchen scraps, dog feces, and cat litter.
Worm Composting, Bokashi, Mushroom Compost, Compost Tumblers, and Compost Tea are all explained, as well as Urban Composting, Winter Composting and Tools & Tips. My favorite "compost" system still remains a "pile and a pitchfork"! Plus, there is much more!.
As you learn how to compost your kitchen scraps, leaves, and grass clippings, you will save money on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and you will keep your garbage out of our over-flowing landfills.
You won't have to soak your lettuce, or other veggies, in a tub full of water to which you've added vinegar and salt in order to break down the chemicals used to grow the produce.
Think about it. Read the papers and learn about all the bad things the big companies do to the food they sell us.
Look at all the "good" kitchen scraps that end up at the landfills.
There are many different ways to create compost - a pile, bin, or tumbler are the most common outdoors methods.
Indoors, you can use compost crocks or pails to temporarily store your scraps, or the Bokashi Method. You can also have a "back porch" compost tumbler, which is small enough to fit on your balcony, deck, or, well, back porch!
Another method of composting is worm composting, which can be done indoors as well - and throughout the year.
An added benefit to worm composting is that the family fisherman or woman (or kids!) will have a continuous supply of worms to use for bait!
A lot of the systems you can use will result in a liquid called compost tea - or you can make it specifically. This liquid is great to use on your house plants.
Mushroom compost - a by-product from mushroom growing - is a great, inexpensive product you can incorporate into your compost routine.
In the fall, you can collect all of your raked-up leaves - or those of your neighbors - and seal them in plastic garbage bags. You simply store them in a shed or garage until spring and then you will have wonderful "leaf mulch" to use on your flower beds and vegetable garden.
Whatever method you use it's good for the environment, saves space in the landfills, and greatly benefits your garden.
We will discuss all of these methods, as well as other information, in this mini guide book.
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