| Organic gardening tips can help you to keep your | | | | bin will produce just a smelly slimy sludge. |
| productive garden healthy and ensure that you are | | | | For good, nutritional compost, one of the best |
| rewarded for all your hard work with beautiful and | | | | organic gardening tips is that you should layer it and |
| bountiful little crops of food and flowers. Beginning | | | | spread some soil over each layer of organic material |
| with your soil, a good tip to promote healthy soil for | | | | that you've put in to break down. Layers of soil, or |
| good plant growth is to dig in lots of leaf mold and | | | | manure, provide vital fungi and bacteria necessary to |
| garden and bark compost. Then, spread it over the | | | | produce the heat needed to break down the organic |
| surface of your soil. | | | | matter. |
| The worms and the weather will then work on it and | | | | Cover your compost bin up when full, and leave it for |
| the quality of your soil will improve. Known as one of | | | | three months to rot. Then, to air it, uncover it, dig it |
| the best, or most important, organic gardening tips, | | | | out, and then put it all back in to the bin. Cover for |
| this work will ensure that any dry soil you have will | | | | another three months, at the end of which you will |
| be enabled to hold on to nutrients and moisture | | | | have produced some excellent compost. |
| whilst the drainage will be improved. | | | | Some organic gardening tips tell you what not to put |
| You can make your own, excellent, compost in a | | | | in your compost bin, and that is; food scraps; meat |
| compost bin by filling it with a mixed variety of | | | | or bones; dog or cat waste; brussel sprout stalks; |
| pruning, dead flower heads, tea bags and leaves, old | | | | anything chemical or synthetic; weeds that have |
| newspapers and grass clippings. The tip here, is to | | | | seed heads, or perennial roots. Anything very woody |
| make sure that it is mixed with brown and green | | | | should be shredded first, like tree prunings for |
| organic materials. Putting only green material into your | | | | example. |