Making Compost - the Best and Easiest Process June 14, 2008
If you are ready to learn the easiest, fastest and best way of making compost, please read on. Gardening for most of my life, as a child I remember my father always had a circular fence at that back of his garden. We always put grass clippings, leaves, coffee grounds, egg shells and other assorted items into it. When I asked him what it was, he told me it was a compost pile. That was my introduction to making compost!
It seemed rather uncomplicated to me. We would put stuff into the circular fence and somehow it always disappeared by the next spring. What I did not know was that my father would get out his pitchfork and turn the compost pile once each week. I also did not realize that he would take the loam created from the pile each year and spread it around the garden right before we “turned over” the garden in the spring. (We used shovels to hand till the garden each year!)
As I grew older I understood the process better and after marrying, I created my own compost pile - just like my father used to have! But it seemed like a lot of work to me and I thought that there had to be a better way. So I began my quest for an easy and best way of making compost. I began reading articles and subscribed to magazines to help me compost better - all in my quest to have a better garden and the best produce I could make.
I read about tumblers, additives, worms, lime, covers and having the right ingredients in the correct proportions. I tried some but not all of the recommendations. Most of the tumblers were too expensive for me at that point in my life and so I did not purchase any of them. So after trying all these items and suggestions, I found that my father seemed to have the formula correct. The easiest and best way for me to make compost was the “old fashioned” way. Put up a fence about four feet high and in a circular pattern and add ingredients. Turn the pile over once in a while and at the end of the season you have a nice rich pile of loam to be spread throughout your garden.
If you have spent a good amount of money on some of the latest and greatest products for making compost, try my father’s formula. It is simple, relatively inexpensive and creates exactly what your garden needs!
Mark Krusch is a lifelong gardener whose garden is the envy of his neighbors. Always willing to try something new to increase his garden’s production naturally, you can see his latest greatest foray into compost making by going to http://markkrusch.com
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