Making compost is really a piece of cake. If you simply tossed your vegetable and fruit scraps into a pile, did it, and then let it sit there and rot – probably until it was ready to use – how long could you wait? Most people are looking for quicker results from their gardening. Quickly getting the compost to a working condition can be the difference between a merely adequate garden and one that will seriously impress visitors.
So what makes a composting system work?
Basically, you need a combination of materials that will both provide carbon-based material and moisture. Moisture is essential, as it is both a fuel for the decomposition process and a medium for the bacteria that digest it. The carbon material provides the energy, and the bacteria provide the enzymes.
Here’s an explanation of some of the key factors:
• These include green and wet materials, which together form the “green” mixture, and dry or woody materials, which together form the “brown” mixture.
• Moisture is necessary, but bear in mind that if your system is properly maintained, your “brown” matter will nearly be all dried up and shredded wood chippings nowadays.
• Carbon materials include twigs, conifers, and branches.
• Nitrogen, or ammonia, materials include manure, chipped bark, straw, and degradable vegetable matter.
• Oxygen, or air, materials include hay, straw, sod, and sawdust.
• The green materials attract the oxygen, the brown materials dehydrate and shred easily, and form the base of the pile.
Add some air to your pile when you turn it with a tool, or even when you carry it by hand. If you add air while shoveling, you are actually adding nitrogen to your compost pile.
There are some things to consider when choosing the right materials to add to your compost pile.
How much money do you want to spend?
This question is going to be the determining factor in what composting system you will employ.
There are a myriad of choices and mixes to choose from.
There are red worms,creamy worm, black wigglers, European nightcrawlers for example, and more.
The worms will eat your junk mail and your cardboard boxes.
The European Nightcrawler is particularly known as “succulent” due to its love of earthworms.
They do well in composting our scraps food scraps.
The worm bin is far easier to move around and pasteurize your food scraps than the traditional compost tumbler and you won’t end up with stinky worms.
Does appearance of your system matter?
appearance of your system can be important especially when you begin feeding on a regular basis.
The bin will heat up quickly,You will most likely see the same heat emitted as when you turn on your heater or boiler.
The bin will be full of these red wigglers in a few short days.
They will reproduce like rabbits.
lite stovemination
This is actually a good system.
It heats up quickly.
Uses less space.
Many companies sell the same components used in the hot composting systems; however, they are not necessarily put together the same.
You may see worms rotate continuously.
The original ingredient will likely be consumed quite quickly.
The heat generated will also be used in the reproduction cycle of these little critters.
Buckets are filled with bunches of the female worms.
This can be mixed up with the tabs on your garden potting bench.
This can also be mixed up with some of your old coffee containers or egg cartons.
Some of these companies will sell you a tray to use which holds a bunch of these Buckets together.
Then you simply have to take the remaining compost from the “old”buckets, and add it to the tray.
Work it into the soil, using a garden trowel or your hands.
The soil will gain in nutrients by the decaying process.
ritual decomposition
Not too bad, isn’t it?
A sokan makes a nice addition to your garden, especially in a no-dig garden.
You can create a no-dig garden, and are guaranteed not to add any invasive weeds to your garden.
Container gardening is a must for the urban dweller.
You can even grow your vegetables on a balcony.
There are self-watering planters that can be used.
With a self-watering agricultural planter, you will not have to water your plants everyday.
