What does that mean? Mother Nature says "Trust Me".
If you want to enrich your garden soil by turning your leftovers into compost, you do not have to get a doctorate in agriculture.
Organic gardening at home, in containers, if necessary or preferred, is being practiced more and more widely now.
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Making good compost takes some know-how, but going through with this may diminish many other gardening problems. Here's an article about compost bin ideas.
Good compost reaches a temperature of 60 degrees Centigrade (140 deg Fahrenheit) or more.
Save dry leaves and small twigs and prunings from your general garden maintenance, to mix in when needed with your wetter leftovers.
While moisture is added to compost materials, bear in mind that vegetable and salad trimmings and other food trimmings are fairly wet already.
Twigs and prunings can help with the aeration needed in composting.
Composting is not the same as decaying your leftovers. It is not a dirty process at all, even though urine can be used as an activator, and that sounds to dirty to many people.
Yet, urine is sterile. It provides a necessary element in the composting process.
Mother Nature is very smart, too smart to allow waste products to be dumped in enormous mountains of refuse and landfills like we civilized humans do.
However, humans are very smart too and can solve problems. Right now a problem for millions is plain lack of food, and lack of money to buy it....if it is even available, depending on where circumstances have led you.
A wealth of information on converting leftovers to compost is easily found on line.
If you are like me and are just discovering how much there is to learn about growing organic food, you might enjoy looking at this material on expert gardening tips.
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