Compost Garden Is More Productive

2007-11-09 05:11:17

( Health )



Organic gardening has gained an increasing popularity as more people have become conscious about their health. Not only do they benefit health-wise but they also realize that organic gardening gives some therapeutic effects on the stresses of their busy lives.

If you believe in the idea of organic gardening, chances are you utilize compost garden to enrich the soil. Compost garden is a mixture of garbage, decayed leaves, grass clippings and other organic matter that you pile carefully and subsequently mix into the soil. In composting, bacterial action breaks down the organic matter into food that your plants can utilize immediately.

Garden watering may be vital to keep your plants alive, but without compost garden, your plants will not be healthy and your harvest not that productive. Compost gardens are environmentally friendly because they loosen the soil texture and let it breathe.

You can buy compost from a garden supplies store or prepare your own compost garden. The process may be messy but it is not difficult. There are so many techniques on how to prepare your compost garden. One thing to remember about composting: it takes time, a few weeks or months perhaps, for the organic matter to decompose into simpler compounds that plants can utilize. For this reason, it is best that you immediately start to build compost garden piles.

There are some principles in composting that you need to understand before embarking to make your own compost garden. Remember that the smaller the size of your composting materials, the faster the decomposition. The reason is that bacteria can act faster on more surface area. Your compost garden pile should generate enough heat to encourage good bacterial action, and these bacteria need nitrogen to decompose the material. You must also be ready to do some dirty work as a compost garden needs to be turned up regularly.


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