 If you can grow your own vegetables, especially if you grow organically, then you have a jump start on health. Healthy fruits and vegetables are important to the bodies function. Unfortunately what you buy at the market may have been chemically induced or grown in a controlled environement. check back here often to see gardening tips for your organic garden and for your flower garden.
Start Your Compost Pile Early
You will want to start your compost pile early. If you live in the northern part of the country,plan on starting it a month or two before the first normal snowfall. The middle part of the country can start later since they get snowfall later. The southern states that grow all year around can keep a compost pile going all year.
To build a compost pile is easy. It doesn't have to be done in a container. Find a spot in your yard, or outside your garden and start piling dry leaves. Add to this any cuttings from your garden, even cuttings from your flower garden, include any stalks leftover from your vegetable garden.
Add any greens left over from your kitchen. Cucumber peels, the leaves you take off your lettuce and cabbage, carrot tops, and any leftovers salads from dinner if they don't have dressing on them. Next, if you have it on hand, add any organic fertilizer left over from the season or add some cow manure.
Stir the pile up, and soak it down with water. Make sure it is where the sun will heat it up. Stir it a couple times a week. If earthworms appear, leave them there, they will make the compost richer.
Leave it all winter, then when the sun comes out in the spring, and everything including the ground is thawed, soak it down again and stir it up. Let it set for a few days and stir again, ad it should be ready for your garden. |
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