Organic Food Blog

Heres a quick and easy tip to help you grow the best Organic fruits and veggies possible. As we all know Organic means they are grown with no fertilizers or pesticides etc. Use of a compost bed will suppy these helpful ailments in a natural manner and is costless. Who can resist trying this at home when it is free to you. Heres what to do.

1. Find a spot atleast 2 feet from your house, structures, or fences etc.

2. Plan on making a bed as large as you want and determine a permanent spot where it can develop without harm. Remember the bed will be 1/4th of thes size when its finished. (it will shrink).

3. Add things such as pine straw, leaves, grass clippings, kitchen scraps (no meat, grease or bones), bonemeal, even cofee grinds or hair can be added.

4. Plan on turning and mixing your ingredients in your compost bed once a week usually with a shovel or pitch fork.

5. When your compost is ready to be added to you beds and garden it should have a sweet woodsy smell to it and be easily ground through your fingers. If it has a bad odor or is clumped it usually means it didnt get enough oxygen.

Hopefully this will help you to enhance the growth of your garden or flower beds. Natural compost helps the water holding capability of the soil and adds nutrients and nitrogen to the soil which it vital in the growth of you plants.