Compost and Bed Preparation

Compost:

Best Practices: For compost there really is no best practice. Any practice is good for composting. The different practices for composting bin compost and pile compost. Bin composting is when someone puts bio-degradable waste into a bin and let that wast decompose. Pile composting is basically where someone has a pile and they just keep adding waste to it and let that decompose.

With composting, there are good things to put in a pile, and bad things. Basically anything that is not bio-degradable you shouldn't add to you compost. Things such as metals, plastics etc.


Bed Prep:
Best Practices: With bed preparation, one of the best known practices is double digging. Double digging allows your bed to become every soft. With double digging, what you want to do is dig a trench that is about a foot deep and move what you dug up out of the way. Once you have done that you want to soften up what you have just dug. Once you have softened that up, you can put that back in the trench. Now you have fluffy soil good for planting things.

Something everyone should know about double digging is that once you have softened up an area of you bed, it is important not to step on that part at all. If you step in that, then your soil will become compressed again, and hard for anything to grow.