How to Make Compost at Home
This is a terrific slide show developed at Cornell University to explain how composting works and show how easily you can make and use compost at home.
Sometimes it seems like composting is limited to vegetable gardening and organic vegetables gardens at that. This is crazy. Flower gardens benefit from compost too!
And while organic gardening pretty much requires using compost in one form or another, non organic gardeners should also be taking advantage of compost. Your flowers will love you for it!
Making compost is not difficult. If you stop to think about it, nature makes compost all the time without any help from us! When a gardener wants compost, there are many ways to go about making it. Some are simple and some are more complex. Some methods use expensive equipment, others require no equipment at all.
The main idea is to facilitate nature's way of breaking down and recycling natural organic waste materials. Once you understand that process, you can decide how best to do that in your own garden.
Which method of composting is best for you depends on how you garden, what you are growing, how fast you need the end product, how much work you want to put into it, and many other variables. There is no one right way to do it. I think there are probably as many different ways to compost as there are gardeners who make compost.
What is important overall is that you recycle the organic material in your yard and garden!
Take a quick look at this simple slide show to learn how the composting process happens, the basics of composting at home, and suggestions of how to make and use compost in your garden. You'll even see examples of how to start or how to build and use a compost pile, compost bin, compost tumbler, and other methods suited to home use.
Follow this link, then scroll waaaaay down the page (it's nearly at the end of the list, about five items up from the bottom of the page!) and click on Home Composting Slide Show for the Powerpoint slide presentation from the Cornell Waste Management Institute.
