Many different options of throwing food waster scrap, is to throw directly in the old tired vegetable garden plot. Leave there to rot and start turning over by making a long or long trench and covering up with old soil from time to time. I won’t worry about birds, rats, mice or rabbits come along and pick it for meals. You may see lupin plants in the old garden, and they are an excellent fertiliser, even mustard seed/flowers too. The Lupin and Mustard Seeds are high for Green Crop Nitrogen Fixing. Somewhere there were comfrey leaves as well. I grow comfrey plants for flowering and making fertiliser.
In the third photo, the other food waste scraps came out directly from the white drum as in the previous blog into the section for making compost throughout the year. I covered this one with large tarp sheet, before this work I laid down cardboard on the ground first, then food scrape on top and finally covered with tarp sheet. Check regularly and turn over, see the layer of compost colours and break down mulching in the fourth photo.
Then shift freshly compost to the garden plot, dig in and turn over for a few days.
It is ready for new vegetable seedlings to plant in.
Another tip for making fertiliser, use broken clean eggshells and put straight into the soil and turn over. Why eggshells?? These eggshells provide calcium deficiency. While this deficiency rarely caused by improper watering, there’s no harm in making sure your plants have a steady source of calcium.
Leaves, grass and weeds are also high for quick composting if you can pile up into moulds and leave there until it is ready to put back in the garden after several weeks.
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