Black gold from your kitchen waste for your Home Garden

Basically, I am a garden lover and started gardening at the age of 6 years, along with gardening I experimented different recycling methods. In various recycling practices the most interesting and satisfying one is converting my kitchen waste into compost – “A Black Gold” for my plants. For my home garden, I used to make compost from fruit waste, vegetable waste and dry garbage. It is tremendously useful for plants and environments.

Compost:

Compost is an organic matter that has been recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment. It is a key ingredient in organic gardening. Such has house hold kitchen waste into useful nutrients for the soil.

How to make compost at home:

“How to compost” when we Google it we will find so many methods to do experiment at home. For all at least we require minimum investment. Today I am explaining a simple method or way without investment. It works very well for small kitchen gardens or terrace gardens.

Things need to make compost:

1.     Used flower pots

2.     Old soil from garden

3.     A lid to cover

4.     A dish to keep below the pot

5.     Dry kitchen waste

Let’s experiment with dry kitchen waste:

1.     Take any used or old flower pot from your garden. It should have holes at the bottom for aeration. In that pot put a layer of cork or coconut husk

2.     Cover with a layer of soil about 5cm thick

3.     Put your all dry kitchen waste for the day over the soil again put one more soil layer on the waste

4.     Next day repeat the same method again, put your waste in pot and on that put one layer of soil

5.     Repeat the process for couple of days or until pot fills completely with waste. Don’t forget to stir the soil for every two days. Every day keep the pot covered with a lid or cork board

6.     Keep a dish under the pot to collect excess moisture. This water also we can use for plants

7.     It will take 6-8 weeks to convert into a compost. For this process we require air, moisture and heat. Due to extreme climates, sometimes it will take 3-6 months

How to identify a good compost:

It smells good like soil

It doesn’t have any fungus

It is crumbly without lumps

It isn’t too moist, it isn’t too dry

How to use:

Compost used as a top layer around plants. This compost can be used directly on the garden bed or container plants.