If you’re about to start a new season garden, your time will be best served by enriching your soil. This will do more for the health of your garden and the abundance of your crops than any fertiliser you apply later in the season. If you plant your seeds and seedlings into fertile, living soil, you give them the best chance of success.
Yesterday we talked about enriching the soil and there is no better way to do that than by adding compost. Compost is a gentle fertiliser that adds organic matter to the soil. Organic matter will bring the worms in, and they will bring in all manner of microbes that will help creature the soil you need for good crops. Another great thing about compost is that it will help you manage your kitchen and garden waste, you end up throwing less in the rubbish bin and recycle bin, and you will make, at home, the best fertiliser possible for your garden.
Once you start making compost, you’ll look at your household waste in a different way. Many things that were once alive, like paper, cardboard, cotton and linen fabric, hair, tea leaves etc, can be used to make compost. Instead of being waste, they’ll now be a resource to make the best fertiliser around. So start your search today. If you’re decluttering, bingo! You can use all those old papers, magazines and worn out skirts in your compost heap. Set up a little compost collection bucket in your kitchen for the kitchen waste you want to put into the compost. It’s best if this has a lid if you want to empty it once a day.
