By Wright County Extension Master Gardener, Gary Cobus.
One of the best natural fertilizers and soil builders is available free. You make it yourself. It’s compost!
You can create compost in your own backyard. Leaves, grass clippings, and even vegetable wastes from the kitchen are the building blocks of compost.
Making compost is simple and inexpensive. It is a little like making a lasagna — a layer of this, a layer of that and then let the whole thing cook until it’s done.
The greatest thing about making your own compost is that you can’t really do it incorrectly. The worst thing that can happen is that it will take a longer time for your compost to be ready to use. Mostly you just want to speed up the process as much as you can. If it takes longer, so what? I never let that be an issue for me.
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