Gardens are great. As I have mentioned before, growing a garden is beneficial in many ways. You get to eat your own food with hopefully close to zero carbon footprint and it tastes better. You also get to be closer to nature and I think there is something magical about watching your own food grow. With my time in Rwanda, we had tons of cows around and using cow manure is a great fertilizer. This was an easy way to grow a great healthy garden. Many folks in America don’t have a bunch monster cows roaming around their house so other fertilizers have to be used.
This is where composting comes in. Instead of using either healthier peat fertilizer, which is harvested unsustainably or chemical fertilizers which will seep chemicals into your fresh fruits and veggies and runoff into streams, create compost!
Composting is easy and near free.
How you do it? (well vermicomposting)
Buy a Rubbermaid container, drill about 30-40 1/8 inch holes on the top, bottom and around the sides.
Fill with bedding, which can be shredded cardboard or paper. You will also want to dampen the bedding. Then you throw in all you throw in all your food waste, well not dairy or meat but most everything else, just put it in the bin.
Last and not least you got to get your worms. Red wigglers are apparently the best. They work fairly fast. If you throw 100-200 worms in there, you should be fine. That’s it, just keep feeding them organic waste.
Composting is a really easy, cheap and will create some of the best fertilizer. You will literally be taking what is straight waste that could go to a landfill thus creating more waste. So you are cutting down on creating more toxic leachates and producing more methane for a super healthy fertilizer for your garden.
Even if you live in an apartment, you can still vermicompost. It doesn’t smell and you can compost with whatever size box you want to.
No comments:
Post a Comment