How To Use Compost – No Digging Involved
So you’ve made your compost now you’re wondering how to use compost? Compost can be used in a variety of ways. It can be used as a mulch, spreading it around trees and shrubs. It can be used as a lawn top dressing. This is where you would apply 1 or 2 inches to the top of your lawn. Rake it and water it and eventually after a week or so, it will settle down in and make its way to the soil, providing nutrients. Your lawn will be the envy of the neighborhood.
You can also make something called compost tea. Compost tea refers to the liquid matter released by the compost. Sometimes, compost produces the tea naturally, but you can also produce your own compost tea by steeping a shovel full of compost in a 5 gallon bucket for a few days.
When it is ready to go, simply pour it on the flowers or plants you wish to fertilize. If you want to keep the compost separate from the liquid, put the compost into a burlap sack when you dunk it into the water.
Lastly, and the most common use of compost is to enrich the soil of your organic vegetable garden. And this is where there are differing schools of thought.
Some people believe you must dig your garden bed up, at least 4 inches and then incorporate the compost into the soil and turn it until it has been completely mixed into the soil. This is one way of doing it, but there is a much easier way.
One that requires no digging.
Naturally repels pests, and…
Your garden will virtually have no weeds.
It’s not a new method, it is basically the way Mother Nature grows food. But we as humans have to make things much harder and more complicated than they need to be. Here is a simple truth —> real organic gardening is actually very simple.
Everything I learned about organic gardening I’ve pretty much learned from Jonathan White, one of the most genuinely enthusiastic Australian men you’re likely to meet. As an environmental scientist and horticulturalist, he’s taken organic gardening to a whole new level.
At his website Food4Wealth.com you can grab a copy of his refreshing step-by-step instruction manual and video series. I highly recommend this guide for the beginner as well as the advanced organic gardener.
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