On todays episode we are going to show you how to make a leaf based compost with all free or recycled materials. The use of compost is one of the pillars of my gardening technique. Composted material including mulch helped me achieve a long term goal of requiring no store bough fertilizers in my garden last year. If done right the compost will continue to add to the nutrient cycle in the soil allowing for healthy beneficial organism growth and plant growth and disease resistance.
This fall I have been busy collecting leaves from my yard and some of my friends places. Leafs are a great resources for creating a hot compost. They are considered a brown ingredient for compost and usually is a free resource most people pay to get taken away.
When building the enclosure for the compost its important to think of a few things, air, size and access. The bacteria that are going to do all the hard work need air. Picking a material that allows for air flow helps keep them happy. I am using this plastic fencing that I had left over from creating my garden fence. Ill use some repurposed survey stakes to give hold it up initially.
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