Great Soil Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive

Create soil amendment right in your backyard

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In recent years, many commercial fertilizers have been in short supply and what we can purchase is so expensive. What if I told you that you don’t need to purchase fertilizer to get rich soil that offers so many different types of fertilizers? What if I told you that the fertilizer that your soil needs doesn’t have to cost you a single dime?

Building Compost-The Garden’s Backbone

One of the most known forms of fertilizer that you can get is from the use of compost. Building compost is a simple process.

You need a form (or several forms) of brown material. Brown material includes dried leaves, hay, straw, and wood chips, paper, or sawdust.

Next, you’ll need a form of green material. Green materials include household kitchen garbage, green matter from the garden, and fresh grass clippings. Don’t add unprocessed meat, bones, or milk products to your compost. Animal manure is another green compost material that will help break down the pile more quickly if they are added.

The first step in building a compost pile is to shred the plant material into smaller pieces. The smaller the pieces, the more quickly they will break down.