A Waste Of Packaged Gold

As we drove by the plush residential homes, some recently covered with a fresh coating of paint and with the variously landscaped yards displaying their beautiful spired shrubs, flowering gardens and well watered green lawns, it could not be helped but to notice the evenly placed lawn bags filled to the brim with yard waste, just waiting to be carried away by the scheduled garbage pickup. So much labor must have gone into neatly and
carefully packing each and every a single of them so they wouldn’t be torn open by a stiff twig or two. Each and every fall and spring a similar scene is reenacted by most of us who seasonally do our traditional yard cleanup.

Having been a fairly devout natural gardener in the 1980′s and traditionally would save each and every bit of waste clippings from our yard that would then go right into a 4×4 foot by four feet higher loosely constructed wooden bin for later processing and churning right into a fine mulch, it was hard to see virtually truckloads of “Organic Gold Plant Food” just waiting to
be carted away to some landfill, or just possibly be used for fuel in some local utility supplier’s furnace. It’s beyond my understanding how this “fuel” for plants can be placed on the discard list.

With this fresh on my mind, I recollect a book written by Ruth Stout, an avid gardener, who appropriately known as her book..
.”The No Work Garden” which showed how she only utilized bales of hay within the 1950′s and earlier to develop her garden, spread the hay in the fall and right after being nicely compressed via the winter, she would then basically place the vegetable seed into a little clump of soil at the proper planting time, pressed it firmly and watered to have the seed to germinate. Thereafter, her garden was by no means watered again. She did this year following year .
..for thirty years. The soil was perfectly PH level balanced and so were all of the required nutrients to sustain all the plants. Sounds like the best scenario, but this example is only to show what could be done with most of anyone’s backyard
refuse…if properly processed.

Now, to step back to my 4-foot cube of diverse organic refuse and possessing filled the bin to about the 3/4 mark by eye, placing a shovelful of topsoil in between 3-4 inch layers of the material, we merely add worms, which could be purchased at a local farm store, or mail ordered through a garden supplier. Normally, they come in a few hundred in quantity and are newborns, but it is possible to also use local worms, picked from decayed leaf. As soon as placed within your compost bin and watered occasionally, they will swiftly multiply and digest the organic and natural materials aerating your compost within the process. This process is carried out…automatically without energy expended on anyone’s component, except for the original placement of the material and bin construction. Following three or four weeks, offered proper rainfall and a little watering, your “pot of gold” ought to be ready to use. Then, simply place a handful of this composted materials in the small hole 6 inches deep, for pre-started tomato plants numerous inches tall, where you plan to plant your vegetable garden. Pack some of this compost mixed with some topsoil around the sides and also dress close to the top of each plant. Provided the appropriate rain, sunshine and warmth, your tomatoes will give you a really early harvest, mainly because you did not discard the “hidden gold”.

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