Backyard Composting Produces Sustenance & Beauty

Backyard composting brings you healthier and more attractive plants. Compost can be used as a side dressing in your vegetable garden and in your flower beds, as a mulch, as a 4 inch layer to dig into 6 or more inches of topsoil to start new beds for vegetables and lawns, and to very lightly top dress your lawn each spring. Composting saves significant space in the local landfill, improves your soil drainage capability and texture. Compost provides microorganisms and nutrients which promote healthy plants. It does not contain enough Nitrogen to be considered a fertilizer but it will build the nutrient content of your soil overtime. Backyard composting is easy with the right materials and there is a range of methods that can meet the needs of many. I am going to describe the hot pile method which can produce finished compost in about 8 weeks.

Composting - Gives More Than It Receives

Composting is the manual and biological process of breaking down animal and plant matter, into a humus type of product that nurtures soil fertility and refines soil structure. It requires the right combination of raw materials, air circulation, and water to produce quality results. When the needed components are correctly mixed, microorganisms will begin
their decomposition process which can generate heat to destroy plant, human, and animal pathogens; weed seeds; and insect larvae. The finished compost is a soil amendment that

How to Grow Apple Trees From Seed

Author: Steve Snyder
Have you ever tried to grow apple trees from seeds collected from an apple? It certainly makes good sense that they would germinate. They are seeds and seeds are

Introduction to Manure Usage with Crop Production

Plants need nutrients and good soil tilth to thrive and produce. They need Nitrogen(N), Phosphorus(P), and Potassium(K) routinely. These three elements are represented by the numbers given on chemical fertilizer containers. Plants also need sulfur and other trace minerals  Crops need good tilth