Ever feel guilty about throwing away vegetable and fruit peels, rinds or scraps?
Your intuition may tell you there’s a better way to handle these leftovers.
Composting is a great way to make use of organic matter that you would otherwise trash.
Building a compost heap is relatively easy, and it will continually give back to your garden and the environment.
According to California’s CalRecycle program, the four necessary composting ingredients are:
- Nitrogen (from sources like grass clippings or those throwaway veggie scraps)
- Carbon (from sources like sawdust or twigs)
- Water
- Air
Once your compost is at the ideal level of decomposition (uniformly dark brown and crumbly), spread it on your garden to give plants a nutrient boost.
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Tags: compost, fruits, organic gardening, vegetables
thanks for share the ingredients of good compost.
nice post.
Compost a gardeners delight vegetable matter left overs from the kitcheneven left overs from cafe`s Etc, If the pig swill guys have`nt beten you to it,
Just to think that not many gardeners take advantage of this never ending supply of good organic matter for your compost pile,
Good article
I don’t know how much my wife and I throw away that we could be recycling into compost. Almost every day, fruit and vegetable peels just go into the garbage. Every year, we throw away a lot of leaves and grass that we could be using.