Some gardeners have a dirty little secret that they don’t want anyone to know about. They think they are hiding it well, but one looks around their garden and it is obvious.
They aren’t composting!
They don’t have compost bins or any means to compost the refuse from their garden and kitchen. I don’t know what they do with all their plant clippings and leaves and apple cores and leftover jack-o-lanterns, and I’m too polite to ask. But I won’t judge them, either, because each gardener has their own circumstances and must live with their own actions.
I’ll just go on record as saying…
Composting – Embrace it for a Happier Gardening Life!
They aren’t composting!
They don’t have compost bins or any means to compost the refuse from their garden and kitchen. I don’t know what they do with all their plant clippings and leaves and apple cores and leftover jack-o-lanterns, and I’m too polite to ask. But I won’t judge them, either, because each gardener has their own circumstances and must live with their own actions.
I’ll just go on record as saying…
Composting – Embrace it for a Happier Gardening Life!
There are all kinds of excuses for not composting…
- Some gardeners think that composting is a lot of work. There’s all that talk about turning the piles, after all, which involves a pitchfork or shovel to “turn” the compost, usually by digging the compost out of one pile and onto another.
- Some gardeners think that composting is complicated. It sure sounds complicated when you read about the “proper” ratios of green (wet) matter and brown (dry) matter. And then there are compost starters for sale at the garden centers. How much of that do you need? And what if the pile is too wet. Or too dry?
- Some gardeners think that compost piles are ugly and that they smell. They think it looks like a pile of debris and wonder what the neighbors will think if the wind blows the wrong way.
Well, forget all that, none of it is true!
Composting – Embrace it for a Happier Gardening Life!
Composting doesn’t have to be a lot of work. You can add to a pile and just let it sit without turning, if you’d like, and eventually, you’ll have compost. It may not be as fast as you would get compost if you occasionally turn the pile, but that pile will eventually break down into compost.
Composting isn’t complicated. You can just pile up whatever you have from your garden, “greens and browns”, with no store-bought compost starters, and you’ll eventually get compost.
Composting doesn’t have to be ugly and it shouldn’t smell. You can put a screen around the compost pile to keep it from being seen or purchase a tumbler or other plastic unit and hide it behind a big shrub. Or even build a wooden fence around it and paint the fence with lovely garden scenes. And if the pile is getting enough air and isn’t full of stuff that shouldn’t be in a compost bin anyway, it won’t smell. Just get creative...
Composting – Embrace it for a Happier Gardening Life!
Composting doesn’t have to be a lot of work. You can add to a pile and just let it sit without turning, if you’d like, and eventually, you’ll have compost. It may not be as fast as you would get compost if you occasionally turn the pile, but that pile will eventually break down into compost.
Composting isn’t complicated. You can just pile up whatever you have from your garden, “greens and browns”, with no store-bought compost starters, and you’ll eventually get compost.
Composting doesn’t have to be ugly and it shouldn’t smell. You can put a screen around the compost pile to keep it from being seen or purchase a tumbler or other plastic unit and hide it behind a big shrub. Or even build a wooden fence around it and paint the fence with lovely garden scenes. And if the pile is getting enough air and isn’t full of stuff that shouldn’t be in a compost bin anyway, it won’t smell. Just get creative...
Most importantly of all...
Composting – Embrace it for a Happier Gardening Life!
Happy Gardening!!
Composting – Embrace it for a Happier Gardening Life!
Happy Gardening!!
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