Home Gardening for Beginners: Soil and Organic Compost
A proper gardening setting must consist of the necessary elements to support plant growth. For plants to have a healthy life, appropriate amounts of the needed components are enough—sunlight, air, water, ground, and attention, because too much of everything could risk the life of your plants.
Sunlight and Air
When we were young, we learned the importance of sunlight exposure in all living creatures. In the case of plants and vegetation, the sunlight is a part of its food process. Photosynthesis, as it called, is a method of processing the energy absorbed from the sun to produce a sugary chemical called glucose, with the use help of carbon dioxide and water. The glucose formed in plants will serve as a source of nutrient (food).
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Home Gardening Using Organic Compost
According to Dietitians Association of Australia, “Malnutrition is a major public health issue in Australia. Known as the silent epidemic, malnutrition is estimated to affect 35-43% of patients in Australian hospitals.“
Malnutrition is the most common reason for some health issues we encounter in our daily lives, problems that may lead to a low quality of life. But there are many treatments to malnutrition, with proper and healthier food selection intake such as protein, low carb, less sugar diet combined with vegetables and fruits and daily exercise, we can stop the root cause of malnutrition.
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How to Make an Organic Compost Pit With Leaf Mulchers
Organic farming is a growing industry. As people start to realise that their health translates to wealth, the demand for organic vegetables increased. And if you want to be involved in farming, you don’t need to have an advanced and modern farm and use contemporary machines and hydroponic technology. All you need are great soil, organic pesticide, seeds, and organic fertiliser. While you don’t have great control in the genetics of your seeds and composition of the soil, you can formulate the components of your pesticides or fertilisers. Mulches can be of great use in this effort.
The process of scrapping and transforming organic material into pulp is called mulching which can be used as fertiliser. To create a fully-organic and effective fertiliser, you need to get organic waste material and process it into a material that the plants can get nutrients from.
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Chemical Fertiliser vs Organic Compost: Which is Better?
“Good yield” was what farming focused on until advanced technology came into the scene, providing gardeners hi-tech and high yield production fertilisers that are based on chemical chemical compounds. And these cheap but chemical-based fertilisers made their way into the farmlands.
In the past, the common practice of composting involves organic waste to make the soil fertile. This has been continually implemented in the present on par with the chemical-based fertilisers. However, gardeners must learn how to weigh the difference between the two mentioned practices of which both aim to get a good yield.
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Beginner’s Guide: Ideal Landscape Designs
Whether your garden needs new plants, organic compost, or a complete restoration, you should list down all your ideas for your plans for a perfect garden. You might get confused with all the ideas if you have never done any garden landscaping before. You’ll need to cut down your list for the best ideas you want. However, we’ve listed the top landscaping ideas you can use to save you some time.
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Decompacting and Composting: How to Make Bad Soil Better
Not all soil is equally rich and abundant with nutrients. In some areas, the soil may have heavy clay content making it difficult for plants to grow. When the soil compacts, vital spaces where seeds take root or where nutrients can filter down to the roots of plants are squeezed out. Roots require air and water, so when the soil is compacted, air voids where air and water can flow in are eliminated between the soil particles.
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Different Methods of Producing Organic Compost
One of the many greenest and most energy-efficient ways of improving soil quality is compost. It helps to avoid wastage of kitchen and garden refuse by transforming them into humus that is rich in nutrients. Such a by-product can be added to the soil that will provide nutrients, which plants need to grow and bear crops.
There are various methods being used to create organic compost, and here they are as follows:
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The Advantages of Green Landscaping
“Green” Landscaping for your garden enhances the beauty of your yard which will make quite a difference not only to your home but also to the environment. If this type of landscaping will be practised, it can provide a useful contrast to your budget, health, future and especially to the environment. Green landscaping includes using organic compost, native plants and eco-friendly supplies that will protect the environment, reduce negative impacts on earth and provide other environmental benefits.
Here are some of the advantages of having Green landscape :
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The benefits of using organic compost
How to manage and monitor organic compost?
Composting is a process of recycling various organic materials, a method used for alternative synthetic fertiliser and other soil. Compost is rich in nutrients that boost plant growth.
Organic fertiliser is used to supply the soil with nitrogen that will provide plants with a required amount of available nitrogen and an excellent source of nutrients to increase the harvest. If you want to improve the condition or retain more moisture on your soil, make use of organic compost that will add nutrients to your soil, or opt on having a clay soil.
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Differentiating Organic Compost from Fertilizers
The preparation of organic compost and how it differs from fertilizers.
Considered by some gardeners as Black Gold, compost is described as a decomposed organic matter that undergoes composting, which transforms the garden and other organic waste into rich, dark, and productive soil. Organic compost excites the soil food web, which is composed of microscopic fungi and bacteria, along with ground critters such as crickets and earthworms.
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