The biggest barrier is just making the piles. Follow this basic set up and start making your own compost. Your plants will love your for it.
This is a basic way to layer in amendments in the fall for outstanding tomatoes come next season or any plants. Prepare your beds in the fall to sleep and reestablish for amazing spring and summer vegetable production.
This is what I made by just letting leaves sit damp in a trashcan over this year. Now I have leaf compost for my garden at no cost and little work.
Follow this basic set up to fit your needs. Build a place for your compost station and begin producing that black garden gold.
Understand greens (nitrogen) and browns (carbon) and how to mix the general ratios for composting.
Cardboard counts as a brown or carbon. You can mix fresh cut grass with cardboard to make wonderful garden compost.
Some finished compost and easy ways to measure and start compost piles for hot composting. Straw makes a great addition to your compost piles. Basic hot composting explained.
You can make compost quickly in compost tumblers. This is a method of mixing greens (alfalfa) and browns (wood pellets) together for hot composting in a tumbler. Compost in as little as 30-60 days! Ratios discussed.
Granular fertilizers are slow release and water soluble fertilizers are fast release fertilizers. You should have both on hand for supplying nitrogen (N), Phosphorous (P), and Potassium (K) to your garden plants. I explain it all.
A collection of videos in one video on fertilizers. Check out the video description for time stamps and markers of the different topics. You can jump to what you want to learn about. I cover everything!
An in depth explanation of the top 3 macro-nutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K). What they are, how they work, and why your plants need them to grow and stay healthy.
An in depth explanation of the other 3 lesser macro-nutrients Calcium (C), Magnesium (Mg), and Sulfur (S) . What they are, how they work, and why your plants need them to grow and stay healthy. They are needed in much lower quantities than N, P and K.
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