In putting up your own composting, you are addressing two important activities related to gardening, one the disposal of thrash in your garden such as dried leaves, cuttings, old discarded plants, excess or used potting soil, weeds and other unsightly excesses in your garden and second, you are meeting the fertilizer requirement of your plants without going to your chemical fertilizer merchant as you are using the organic way of feeding your plants. You have sanitized your garden and at the same time save a few dollars on fertilizer.

However, there are certain minimal cost involved in putting up your composting site, while most of your materials are free and just lying idle in your area. To start your comporting, you have to identify the area where you intend to put up the site which should not be far enough on your sources of materials so that you can save on efforts in going to and fro to the site as well as when you harvest your compost and apply it to your garden. If it is situated a little distance from your work area and garden, it will cost you precious time in moving to and from the composting site.

After you have identified the site area, you construct two composting wooden pens in rectangular form made of wood, measuring 4 ft in wide by 5 ft in length and 5 ft in height using 4 inches by 4 inches wood as post and 2″ by 4″ as wall boards for the three walls as you will leave one wall open for easy access to the composting pen. Imbed the 4 post in the ground and nail the wall boards on the three sides of the pen with a spacing of 2″ for ventilation. After putting all the three walls, gather all the dried leaves, shrub cuttings, grass clippings and other brown waste from the garden and pile it inside the pen up to 6″ and cover it with layers of green cuttings and you should alternate the materials brown then green and the pile of each layer should not exceed one foot. The stock pile is watered every foot high to facilitate composting and after filling up at the top water is applied again.

Actually, it is not required to water the pile but it adds up to facilitate the composting process if you are in a hurry. The procedure is to turn up the compost after a few weeks but it would be difficult since our pile is on a pen but surely the waste would rot subsequently. As the first pen is full of trimmings and waste, start filling the second pen so that your compost would be harvested in sequence and when the compost is ready, dig a half a meter in diameter and half meter deep pit with an interval of two meters in your gardening area if you have sufficient compost material to fertilize your soil. If your compost will not suffice to do it, use the compost by digging a 6″ deep parallel lines 6″ width on your planting area and cover it with top soil before you plant.

For your soil potting needs, you may mix the compost with your potting soil in a ratio of one is to two of garden or potting soil to make sure that your planting pots are properly prepared with compost material prior to your planting activities using pots or containers.

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