The Basics and Benefits of Mushroom Organic Compost
Organic compost, which is basically decomposed organic matter, is used as a fertiliser, soil conditioner, and natural soil pesticide. In maintaining a healthy and chemical-free garden, landscape, or organic farm, make sure to add compost to your soil as it is packed with nutrients. There are a plethora of organic materials you can use to make your compost. In this article, we will focus on mushroom compost, specifically. Let’s start with the basics.
What is mushroom compost?
Mushroom compost is a kind of slow-release, organic plant fertiliser also known as mushroom soil. To the unfamiliar, they would assume that it is an organic compost made solely out of mushrooms—it is not. To make this compost, you must use soil that has been used to grow the mushrooms. It is comprised of various materials, including:
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Types of Organic Compost Sold by Labrador Landscape Supplies
The Importance of Composting
Composting is the process of turning organic matter that is ready for disposal into something beneficial. It is important because it converts organic materials (except anything animal-based) such as vegetable matter, eggshells, coffee grinds, tea bags, paper products, trimmed grasses, twigs/leaves, and the like by allowing them to decompose into a rich form of soil. This organic compost matter is chock-full of vitamins and helps in growing plants in any space. Compost is also crucial because it wards off harmful pests.
At Labrador Landscape Supplies, we understand that the right type of organic compost can make all the difference in a garden. Thus, Labrador Landscape provides only high-quality compost and soil combinations for any garden across the Brisbane and Gold Coast regions. Take a look at our unique soil and compost mixes.
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Make Organic Compost during the Pandemic
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:
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Advantages (and Small Disadvantages) of Using Organic Compost
If you’ve taken up gardening on a more serious level due to the lockdowns from the pandemic, you’ve probably been encouraged to use organic compost with your ornamental or vegetable garden. Organic compost is used as a fertiliser and mixed into the soil so the plants can absorb the natural nutrients. Organic compost can be made up of plant or animal waste. There are advantages in using organic compost, though with a few disadvantages as well. However, the disadvantages can be overcome with a few compromises.
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Cat and Dog Waste Mixed with Soil Creates Organic Compost
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.
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Turn Your Dog’s Poop into 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.
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Everything about the Fundamentals of Organic Compost
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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Organic Compost or Topsoil: Which is Best to Use and When?
Doing landscape is not a walk in the park. Aside from assessing the overall look of your property, there are plenty of technicalities to consider. You have to know the plant that fits your property, the soil, will you be using organic compost or another type of mulch, etc. With so many to think of, we often forget the most crucial part of the landscaping journey – the battle of compost vs. topsoil.
If you’re looking for a healthy and low maintenance landscape in the future, starting with soil is the best investment to go. The right soil is the crucial ingredient that will affect the performance of your plants. So where do we begin?
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How Different Is An Organic Compost From a Fertiliser?
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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Labrador Landscape: Traits of an Excellent Organic Compost
Whether you are an expert horticulturist or a beginner in gardening, the knowledge about the relevance of fertilisers to botany is common. Some of us may get compost supply through garden shops to start or replace the old batch of garden soil while others make their own. Making our own fertilisers can be liberating and can save us from extra expenses. However, creating the ideal compost is not as easy as collecting them. Before we start making compost piles, we should know the proper ways to identify the essential qualities of fertilisers to help improve our garden life. Let us at Labrador Landscape help you with gardening. We are a company dedicated to giving you quality organic compost and horticulture essentials supply. (more…)
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