How To Make Composting To Replenish Your Soil, Garden, And Save Money

If you're growing a lot of stuff in a patch of soil but are so efficient as to not drop or leave anything for the microbes to break down, the soil can become used up of its nutrients. The best way to balance this out is not to go to the store and purchase expensive fertilizers or plant food, but rather to create a compost bin and grow your own fertilizer.

How To Make Composting Bins

By putting a bunch of soil, sawdust, leaves, organic matter, grass clippings and anything else of this nature together you create an ecosystem where over time the whole thing becomes the earth (dirt) multivitamin. You can mix this into the soil in your garden, sprinkle it across your lawn and even mix it into your herb garden to give your plant life a natural boost that will give your plants the biggest boost of their life! This is all natural, very inexpensive and it doesn't take a lot of management.

If you use the Bokashi concept, you just need a bucket with an air tight lid, Bokashi mix and organic matter. You simply put your banana peels and so forth into the bucket as you get them. The more organic matter you put in there the more potent your compost will be!

Another way is to create a composting bin using a metal drum that you will poke holes all around for air circulation, a door should be added or cut out (with a way to close it so the compst doesn't fall out, so you have a place to both add the ingredients and to remove them later when the compost is complete.