Does reading your daily newspaper, with all of it's bad news,

shocking stories, 

 

and predictions of doom and gloom............

leave you feeling like this??

Do you feel like you just want to tear up the whole paper and not read it again until something good comes from it??

Well, you can do just that!!

That's right, after reading your daily horror story, simply shred or tear that paper up...............every page............into nice little shreds.

Take it all and mix it with  a wheel barrel full of leaves and weeds from the grounds.................

add a good amount of donations from your horse,

chickens or what ever other kind of barnyard friend you have................

work and look like this...........it's important to enjoy the process..............

and by the end of the season...........

you will look like this!!!

 

Now,  I hope I have cheered you up and taken you away from your daily dose of drama...........

here are some wonderful tips on composting and the benefits of working it into your garden grounds.

The first important ingredient for any good garden is good soil.

Building your soil from using organic matter for compost, instead of chemical methods, is a sure way of gaining garden success.

Chemical fertilizers quickly boost the soil activity but it is only a quick fix..........not to last.

Your plants will respond by having quick growth but as soon as they use up the fertilizer, their growth is over. So you have to keep buying expensive chemicals to add to the plant. In the long run, the chemical fertilizer reduces the soil's viability because it winds up killing the important microorganisms that live in the soil and make it healthy. When you feed the soil with organic matter, you are feeding the microorganisms as well.

Organic matter is stuff that once was alive.

Newspapers, cardboard, manure, straw, leaves, weeds from your grounds, potato peelings, vegetable peelings,  coffee grounds, and egg shells are all good ingredients for organic compost.

The 4 important ingredients for compost are:

Green material

Brown material

Air

Water

 

The best way to get compost to decay and to turn into a rich matter to add to your garden is by having a balance of

1 part green material

to

4 parts brown material.

A moist compost pile rots faster than a dry one. So sprinkle water onto  the pile........do not saturate.......

and then give the pile air by tossing or rotating it every week.

I often run my garden tiller over the pile............this adds dirt and really breaks up all of the various materials in the pile.

How about you?

Do you compost ?

Have you had wonderful results from doing so?

I would love to hear!