Benefits Of Composting - Feed The Soil, Not The Plants
by John Yazo
Composting has a lot of benefites, by adding nutrition to your gardens soil and by bieng environmentally safe. It will improve the quality of a soil structure from sandy soils to heavy clay soils and also add nutrition to the soil at the same time. Compost improves the soil structure, tilth, moisture retention and can help protect plants from certain diseases. It is also a free source of fertilizer and mulch.
Environmentally, composting reduces the amount of trash that is brought to the landfills and incinerators which reduces the pollution to our air and ground water. It is a beneficial use of organic household, yard and garden waste.
Composting is the recycling of organic household, yard and garden waste by turning it into a humus that is very beneficial to your garden soil and plants. It regenerates poor soil by encouraging micro-organisms that in return break down the organic matter into a material full of nutrients, airy, and having the ability to hold water.
Manure composting along with composting leaves, spent weeds, grass clippings and other organic household will produce a nutrient rich humus that can be added as a soil amendment to your garden or as an organic fertilizer.
The use of compost as a soil amendment in your garden improves the structure of the soil and reduces the need for water, fertilizer and pesticides.
Compost can also be used as a mulch to help retain moisture. It will also help to suppress plant disease and pests in your garden and is a great way to recycle.
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