Why Make Compost?

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There are so many benefits to creating your own compost, so I think it’s worth the effort. Here are 6 reasons why.
1. Where-ever you make your well made compost heap it will get so hot that the soil
underneath it ‘burns’, along with any weeds – so it will even kill Couch or Kikuya
grass. Native soil life can bury down under the hot surface area to survive. Enough
nutrients leach down into the soil under the heap for them to feed on. This area
under your compost pile becomes a very fertile, cleared planting bed – too good to
waste by building the next compost pile in the same place. Consider building your
next compost pile where you want your next planting area.
2. It gives an initial quick boost to the population of soil micro-organisms when you
are first establishing an area. Using compost to plant out (at least for the first time)
provides your garden beds with starter cultures of micro-organisms.
3. To create your own seedling raising and potting mixes. Combined with worm
castings and river sand, compost based seedling raising mix has the right texture,
water retaining and draining qualities and is nutrient-rich enough to give seedlings
and cuttings a great start.
4. To provide additional nutrients in the garden when planting out heavy feeders
following another heavy feeder.
5. To incorporate organic matter into the garden that isn’t suitable for feeding to the
chooks. So many household and garden materials can go into creating wonderful
nourishment for your plants that would have to be otherwise disposed of. By
turning it into compost instead, you are greatly reducing the burden on the
environment and keeping yourself fit in the process.
6. Compost is often used as a nutritious layer of mulch, reducing evaporation and
helping keep weeds at bay.
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