How do you compost? What do you mean? What is compost? These are questions probably raised in your mind.
As an amateur gardener, you hear this word quite often. How does it come about? At the same time, you ask yourself why, ‘Why do you compost?’
Growing a healthy garden
If we break down the components of a garden, here we have an example of, a designated area being filled with specific soil, seedlings, plants, shrubs and bushes and tall plants. In other words, these plants are to be cultivated for their flowers and/or food either edible or non edible.
What the process look like?
Now how it turns out depends on the condition of the soil. Meanwhile, how healthy the soil is, depends on what one adds to it. Hence, it is called amendment to the soil. As you can see, the process of making the soil healthier is called composting. In short, it involves adding nutrients to the soil mixture.
Components of composting
Do you compost?
Do you compost?1
- food scraps
- grass cuttings
- cardboards
- worms casting
- soil
- water
The image above shows how composting is done. So, let us take a look at this. What exactly do we add to the mix? The nutrients, for instance, are food scraps and grass cuttings, cardboard and worms castings, etc.
This entire process is called composting, thereby ensuring that the ground remains healthy to grow healthy plants.
Is composting necessary?
What a great question. If composting involves the breaking down of nutrients into their basic forms, is it good for the environment?
In my opinion, I believe no matter where science chooses or how composting presents adverse effects on greenhouse emissions, I choose it as a necessary step in my garden. According to my understanding, it is still a safer option otherwise.
In conclusion, I rather have a beautiful garden to look at than a smelly and contaminated landscape that no one appreciates. If only, all of us, take the responsibility to keep our environment beautiful and luscious, we have a beautiful city to live in.
