Organic compost

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Your garden and house already provide most of the nutritional requirements of your soil and garden. All you need to do is to help them out of the form they are currently locked away in.

Potato peelings or a pile of grass cuttings aren't much use by themselves but properly composted they will produce a rich and perfectly natural fertiliser and soil conditioner.

Composting is one of those areas that gardeners and gardening books seem to delight in laying down mixtures rules and techniques for.

The simple truth is that composting is probably one of the easiest and, in and odd way, rewarding aspects of gardening.

Compost is simply the byproduct of our little garden friends having a right royal feast on the organic leftovers we produce from home and garden.

It's quite difficult not to produce good compost!

Tips for making your own organic compost

Follow these tips on producing home-made good quality organic compost:

Use a variety of materials ensuring they are well mixed
Make sure that your heap is well ventilated
Keep it moist
Activate new heaps with material from old ones
Keep it covered to suppress weed growth and retain heat
Avoid large lumps of anything, break them down or discard
Urine contains a superb sterile source of nitrogen - essential for plant growth

Organic compost - useful links

For further and more detailed information on how to create organic compost, the following web sites should prove useful. If you know of any other organic compost related web sites email us on: enquiries@aboutorganics.co.uk.

Compost Guide - www.compostguide.com
All you could ever want to know about composting.

GardenAdvice.co.uk - www.gardenadvice.co.uk/howto/organic/compost
How to make great organic compost.

Garden Organic - www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicgardening/gh_comp.php
A comprehensive guide to making compost.

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