How To Compost Garden & Yard Waste
Garden composting and backyard composting are the two most popular ways of taking advantage of the natural wonders of rich, fertile compost. These are probably the most popular because they’re quick and easy to get started with, and they take little to no time or maintenance.
Any yard and garden waste can be composted. Many people don’t realize just how rich of a resource their garden debris can be, and even “everyday” yard waste such as grass clippings and fallen leaves are excellent items to add to the compost pile too.
All waste products that come from the yard and garden are usually 100% organic. And anything organic can be recycled by composting it into rich soil for future use. And when I say everything can be composted, I’m serious. Here are several excellent examples of things all of us have in our gardens and yards…
In the front or back yard: grass clippings, fallen leaves, sticks and tree branches, pincones, dead flowers, bush trimmings, and more.
When you mow the grass for instance, do you normally gather up all the clippings and throw them into the trash? If so, you’re not only wasting a valuable resource but you’re also depriving your lawn of rich nutrients and minerals it needs to be healthy and beautiful. If you simply leave the grass clippings laying where they fall, they’ll automatically break down and decompose for you. This decomposition is vital to the health and beauty of the lawn over time.
The same applies to fallen leaves. If you rake them up and throw them away, you’re wasting rich nutrients. The simplest way to use these for compost would be to let them lay where they fall. Over time they’ll naturally decompose and add their nutrients back into the ground where they’ve decomposed at.
If you want to concentrate on making compost of course though, then you can rake up these grass clippings and leaves, and add them to your bakyard compost bin along with all the other things mentioned above. We’ll get to the specifics of that in a moment, but for now let’s look at garden waste…
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