How Do You Make Organic Compost Fertilizer And Mulch?
Making compost is a process of cultivating living micro-organisms. These micro-organisms must have 4 ingredients to flourish and produce a nutrient rich fertilizer or mulch. These 4 are oxygen or air, water, nitrogen, and carbon. Nitrogen rich materials are the “green” or moist materials such as fresh grass clipping, leaves, and most other alive landscape substances. Carbon rich materials are the “brown” or dry materials such as dry twigs, leaves, hay, and straw etc. Just keep a note that the greens will be alive and moist and the browns are all things dry. Water will used to wet down each layer of the pile and air or oxygen is added when the pile is turned providing air pockets by not allowing the pile to compress and compact. Many materials are bio-degradable but for organic fertilizer, it must not have any chemicals. There is not a set method of building an organic compost pile. Piles are built in layers to ensure the proper proportion of nitrogen to carbon, and water and air. Then
