Make worm compost for a healthy garden
Making compost for our gardens is as simple as finding a shady place to make a pile of leaves, plant trimmings and grass clippings. Left alone, a heap compost pile will produce a soil additive that builds plant-protective beneficial micro-organisms and encourages worms to till the soil for you. A compost pile that is turned and watered will produce finished compost more quickly but the quality of the finished product will be about the same. Our compost pile is surrounded with a stack of cinder blocks to hold the contents in place. Other frames can be made of discarded pallets, a wire cattle panel, or chicken wire. The easiest method, incorporation, or composting in place, uses no pile or bin. Holes are dug in the garden and non-protein, non-fatty kitchen and food waste is buried. In a month or more, the waste breaks down and contributes to the soil, fertilizing future plantings. Any area that is not being used to grow plants can be put into service. The hole has to be ...