Composting

Composting

• trigger 15 years ago
  
  Compost is one of nature's best mulches and soil amendments, and you can use it instead of commercial fertilizers. Best of all, compost is cheap. You can make it without spending a cent. Using compost improves soil structure, texture, and aeration and increases the soil's water-holding capacity. Compost loosens clay soils and helps sandy soils retain water. Adding compost improves soil fertility and stimulates healthy root development in plants. The organic matter provided in compost provides food for microorganisms, which keeps the soil in a healthy, balanced condition. Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus will be produced naturally by the feeding of microorganisms, so few if any soil amendments will need to be added.
  
  Flag
• pointsevenout 13 years ago said:
  I'm looking into composting. More specifically for acid loving plants.
  Believe its called acidic humus. Somebody help me here if my formula is not right.
  I have a wooded area on my property with oak and pine. Plan on setting up a tomato cage and fill it with the fallen oak leaves and pine needles using a little bit of cottonseed meal for a nitrogen source to get the composting started.
  If I set up one tomato cage per year in different areas in the woods, in three to four years I will should have a fresh harvest of acidic humus year to year to feed my plants.
  Should be able to walk away from the compost piles and let nature take over.
  The forest floor has a nice black topsoil from years past leaf fall under natural compost.
  I did clean a spot of leaves away to harvest a load of leaf mold for this coming years garden and am in the process of setting up the first tomato cage compost bin.
  Flag

Have a comment? Join this group first →