Derrick talks about the importance of
rich compost as soil amendment, and challenges visitors to create a pleasing display at home - often suggesting a surprising combination of plants.
Not exact matches
As the
compost is produced from human food it is the
richest fertiliser that you can find in the market!
This enabled the dairy to use manure solids to be naturally
composted and used
as fertilizer, and to turn manure liquids back into nutrient -
rich water for irrigation of pastures.
At my house there is never a shortage of green material (also known
as wet or nitrogen -
rich matter)-- orange peels, corn husks, dinner food scraps, yard waste, etc. — for my
compost bin, but when it comes to finding brown (also known
as dry or carbon -
rich) material, in the past I've often ended up coming up short.
The third grade takes care of the remaining
composting duties, such
as adding garden vegetation, turning the piles, sifting finished
compost, and spreading the
rich compost on the garden.
After
composting, the dried manure will be applied to fields
as a
rich fertilizer.
100 years ago, farmers used to put
rich compost back into the soil
as fertilizers.