Growing potatoes

Compost is certainly one of the most significant garden components available and can get better almost every kind of garden. With compost you add nutrition to the soil, so you use less the chemical. Compost also helps to loose the soil, avoids compaction of soil, prevents drying up during warm and winter seasons, and provides protection for fragile plants.

Compost also significantly lessens the amount of effort necessary to keep a garden healthy, lawn or flower bed by decreasing or eliminating the growth of weeds. With the correct amount of compost, all your garden plants will surely become healthier. So you should know how to make compost properly.

First of all define the width and the length of garden where compost is planned to be spread.
Secondly, to get the total area of the lot where compost is desired to be applied, multiply the width by the length.

Also, you have to define as well how much or how deep would you want the compost to be spread.

Creating a compost bin

It is very easy to make compost. To build a portable compost bin:

• Purchase a 12′ length of galvanized chicken wire, several wire ties and four metal stakes.

• Fold back each end of the chicken wire several inches so there’s no rough edge. Wrap it into a circle and stand it on the ground.

• Tie the chicken wire together with the wire ties. If you would like your bin to be more stable, space the metal stakes around the inside of the circle, secure them to the wire and pound them into the ground.

• When you need to aerate your compost, unwrap the wire from the stakes, turn the pile, then replace the wire. Alternatively, you could make two separate bins and turn the pile from one into the other.

Create a base of hay, 12 inches in thickness, right at the bottom of the wire cage. Put a two-inch pile of clippings from grass and scraps from vegetables at the top of the hay. Now add another pile of vegetable scraps and clippings from grass, this time at about 12 inches in thickness. Finish that up with a layer, at about two inches, of peat moss.

This process needs to be repeated until your materials reach the skim of the bin. You still need to observe the thickness of each pile though.
Then just damp the pile with water by using a water hose. Introduce water evenly, but not too much. Make sure you achieve spongy kind of dampness.
The last part though takes patience. Every two weeks, mix your materials very well. You know when it is all done, when you achieve black and rich consistency in the pile. Now, you are ready to put your compost on your garden soil.

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Posted on May 5th, 2010 under FERTILIZATION, Soil preparation. Tags: compost bin, compost container, Compost Pail, How to make a compost bin, humus, Mulch. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.