Recycling Compost
If you’re already eco friendly, and
know how to look after your garden, and not discard your food scraps,
I’m sure you’ve already invested in the idea of composting.
Composting is a fantastic idea when you’re trying to be eco friendly.
Typically, you start with a large container (usually black, this helps
the product avoid sunlight and decompose too quickly for it to hold its
nutrients, and be of benefit to your garden) and fill the bottom with a
small amount of soil.
Every day after anyone in your house hold has finished preparing food,
or peeling an orange for example, you take the scraps out into the
compost bin and place them in the soil.
Plastic, glass and some paper objects are not to be placed in the bin,
as they are not organic and won’t be able to decompose like the rest of
the food.
After a few days, or weeks the food will start to decompose and enrich
the small amount of soil with its nutrients.
The more food and soil that you place in the compost bin, and the more
time you allow, the better and more enriched your soil becomes.
This is a great idea in terms of recycling your old (organic) food
scraps, and allowing you to possess some top notch soil!
The soil can then be used under any circumstance in gardening. Potting
plants, or planting them in the ground, the soil will be full of the
good stuff that it drew from your food.
Make sure that your food has decomposed accordingly before planting and
using your soil – Nothing is more unattractive than a rose bush, with a
pork chop bone stuck in the soil underneath it.
Bark is another one of those items that can easily be used to benefit
your garden. When it falls of your trees at any time of the year, it can
be a nuisance to get rid of.
However, when it is chipped up in a wood chipper, it can be an excellent
water retainer, when placed on top of your soil.
Instead of simply throwing out your food scraps next time you finish
dinner with your family, or friends. Think of the environment and how it
could benefit with the nutrients left from your food, and not how the
bin can benefit from being full of the needed food scraps.
Enriching your soil with your food scraps is a great way to have
fantastic soil that will encourage your plants to flourish, with the
help of compost.
Composting your food is a great way to get rid of food scraps, and help
benefit the environment.
Reusing old wood products like bark can also help your garden, and save
the bin-space when you are discarding trees and branches. They are a
great source of vitamins too, when adding bark to your soil, and help
hold in water which is particularly important for countries that are
under the pressure of drought.
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