How to make rich, healthy compost for your garden
By
Beth Botts
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Summary
This article explains how to make rich, healthy compost at home. It covers the basics of composting as a way to improve soil quality, recycle garden waste, and provide free nutrients for plants. The article includes expert advice from Sharon Yiesla of The Morton Arboretum, emphasizing that compost can meet plants' nutrient needs better than store-bought fertilizer. It describes compost as decomposed organic matter and explains that home composting simply speeds up a natural process.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledEnriching the soil with compost can usually meet your plants' needs for nutrients.
It's a much better deal than paying for fertilizer.
Making your own compost is a great way to improve your soil, make use of garden waste and recycle nutrients for your plants to use. And it's free.
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