Now that the coronavirus pandemic is still driving people to stay and spend more time at home, many people are turning to gardening. Whether the gardening is for ornamental landscaping or to grow vegetables for consumption, making your organic compost may be a good idea for the garden and to help with the environment by curbing organic and food waste.

Food and yard waste for organic compost is more manageable than most people think. Composting is a great idea and one of the best ways to prevent organic waste from entering the waste stream. While most food and yard waste can be composted, the following cannot be composted:

We all love our four-legged canine or feline family members. However, the by-product of these dogs and cats is the unwanted “poop.” In Australia alone, a large percentage of the population owns either a cat or dog, or both. This roughly amounts to more than 10 million cats and dogs. An average pooch or feline can approximately produce about 180 kilograms of animal waste in a year. So, all this waste can pile up even when it ends up in a landfill. Rather than throwing it away, you can use animal waste as a sustainable source of organic compost.

Creating your own organic compost from your dog’s poop is a way to start creating a healthy vegetable bed in your yard. Since dogs are 40% commonly found in the household, you can gather plenty for your next composting project. So how do you turn your dog’s, or perhaps your neighbour’s dog’s poop, into an amazing compost? Here’s how you get it done. 

Mark the area where you will be composting

If you have a large yard, you can build a compost bin out of old wooden pallets that you can get for free. Make sure that your compost bin is not near your house and not in easy access to children. 

Organic composts are considered as soil’s greatest friend. Organic compost can keep your soil healthy, and plants grow if they are added to your garden patch. It is a perfect fertiliser for your flower beds, a garden patch, house plants, other planting areas and trees that surround your property. For crops and produce, it could increase the quality of your yield, too. Now, isn’t that a wonder? 

While the whole organic compost is truly a wonder of its own, it is best that we also have to take notice of the fundamentals of great organic compost. 

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One of the most common myths in gardening is that organic compost is confused with fertiliser. Meanwhile, this misconception contradicts a lot of articles about gardening. In this article, we will determine some factors of what makes these two different from each other.

It is common knowledge that fertilisers and composts are essential for gardening since they make plants healthy. But what makes these two different from one another? Familiarise yourself with their definitions:

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