Making your own organic compost is a simple task for the professional as well as beginner gardener. Considering that you know everything that is going into it, making your own gardening compost gives you more control over your garden and what is going into your vegetables.

When you make your own organic gardening compost, you never have to worry if a vegetable is truly “organic.”

The best part is: you don’t need any special equipment just organic waste from your yard and kitchen.

Be sure to start you pile away from your house because there are going to be bugs and worms. Bugs and worms are good though.

Also you don’t want your dog to have access to your pile. They may find something they think is tasty and end up getting sick.

The best way to start a compost pile is with yard and gardening waste.

This includes everything from your yard:

• leaves
• grass
• tree trimmings
• roses
• weeds
• garden scraps
• everything

Just be sure you cut the organic matter up so it is easier for it to decompose into the the soil.

I DO NOT SUGGEST USING YOUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS EXCREMENT!

Next waste from your kitchen:

• egg shells
• lemon and orange rinds
• banana peels
• apple cores
• carrot ends
• strawberry stems

You can use anything that you can think of that is organic and will decompose.

The most important step is to go out about once a week with your shovel and turn the compost. The compost pile needs to breathe. Otherwise, you will end up with a huge pile of stink.

If you notice that is really stinky when you are turning the compost, try adding straw or hay so that it can breathe properly. Gardening compost needs to breathe to decompose properly.
If you notice that you are getting unwelcome visitors to compost pile, your neighbors dog, rats, raccoons, other scavengers, you may want to look into getting a gardening compost container at your local hardware store or garden center store.

You can also order these really cool tumbler things but they tend to be really expensive.

The choice is yours depending on how much you want to spend.

Once your compost looks like soil, your done. You now have organic gardening compost.

See, that wasn’t hard at all. Was it?

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