Nothing Beats Making Compost Using Mother NatureÕs Own Ingredients

Making compost is so easy when you have nature’s help. Just dump anything organic into the compost bin-- grass clippings, leaves and plant cuttings, along with leftover kitchen scraps. Add a scoop or two of man-made fertilizer and a little water. Then, put it in the sun. In time, this compost pile becomes plant food!

How does all that happen? Composters are probably the most overlooked and the least understood of all the gardening aids to growing. Actually how to compost is very simple. You may remember the term “compost bins” from high school science.

A compost bin is actually a container with a mixture of organic matter in different stages of decay that eventually becomes an organic compound.  Composting allows a chemical reaction to take place between the organic ingredients. Heat is produced and converts food waste and other organic material by decomposition, into compost, or nutrients.

Produce Unlimited Amounts of Nature’s Best Plant Food—Free!

You can buy all the fancy gardening aids or any kind of pre-packaged, man-made fertilizer you want— nothing is better to condition your lawn and garden soil or enhance plant growth as well as this plant food—that you can make yourself!

Composters come in many sizes, shapes and materials. Plastic and metal, even though unsightly, are the most durable. There are even some bins disguised as wooden garden benches. Although wood has the more aesthetic appearance, because it’s organic, it will eventually become part of the composting process.

So now, that you know all about composters and how to make your own plant food-- make some for your neighbors too. You’ll be the hero on the block by saving them having to buy packaged fertilizer. And you may come out smelling like a rose.

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