One of the very best things you can feed your garden plants is rotten. Very rotten.
We’re talking compost, people! The decayed remnants of your fruit and vegetable scraps, egg shells, tea leaves, coffee grounds, yard clippings, and why don’t we toss in a little straw for good measure? Point of information: You can get a bale of straw at OK Feed & Supply for about 10 bucks.
Being an avid and regular consumer of food, I have more than a little composting material around here. Which I cut up and save in recycled yogurt containers. Those containers live in the fridge until it’s time to head outside…
Once the contents of my yogurt containers are outside, they get tossed in my home-made, got the buckets for free, twin compost bins…
Since my very low budget composting system doesn’t have one of those cranks for turning and mixing the goodies, I have to do it by hand…
Well, wasn’t that the loveliest photo ever to appear on this blog?
It’s time to be nice and show you the results of composting. Here are my bell pepper plants, which are growing quite well in a 50-50 mixture of soil and compost from the aforementioned twin bins…
And more compost is in the works. Bulk tea leaves from the Food Conspiracy Co-op are getting the water-solar-sun tea transformation. The tea leaves will soon find themselves decomposing in the service of even more vegetable gardening…
