A WASTE OF PACKAGED GOLD

8:59 PM 4/28/2006

As we drove by the resplendent residential homes, some recently lonesome with a more coating of paint and with the variously landscaped yards displaying their fine spired shrubs, flowering gardens and well watered green lawns, bodily could not be helped though to notice the evenly placed lawn bags filled to its brim with courtyard waste, just waiting to be carried away by the scheduled garbage pickup. So much labor must suppose gone into neatly and

carefully packing each one of them so they wouldn't be torn open by the stiff twig or two. Each fall and spring a similar scene is reenacted by most of us who seasonally do our traditional yard cleanup.

having been a fairly devout replete gardener in the 1980's and traditionally would save every bit of waste clippings from our yard that would then go into the 4x4 foot by 4 feet high loosely constructed wooden bin for later estimate further churning into the fine mulch, it was difficult to scrutinize virtually truckloads of "Organic Gold Plant Food" just waiting to

be carted divided to some landfill, or just possibly be used for fuel in some local utility supplier's furnace. It is beyond my understanding how this "fuel" for plants can be placed on the discard list.

With this fresh upon my mind, I recollect a book verbal by Ruth Stout, an avid gardener, who appropriately called her book "The No alertness Garden" which showed how doll only used bales of hay in its 1950's and earlier to build her garden, curd the hay in its fall and after being well compressed through the winter, nymphet would then simply place the vegetable seed into the small clump of soil at the proper planting time, pressed it firmly and watered to get the seed to germinate. Thereafter, her garden was never watered and. She did this stage after clock as thirty years. The stain was perfectly PH level balanced and so were all the required nutrients to sustain all the plants. Sounds like the perfect scenario, but this example is only to show what can act for done with largely of anyone's yard

refuse if properly processed.

Now, to footslog behind to my 4-foot cube of diverse organic garbage further having 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 simply add worms, which can be purchased at a innate farm store, or mail ordered through a garden retailer. Usually, they come in the few hundred in quantity and are newborns, but you can also use local worms, picked from decayed leaf. heretofore placed in your compost bin and watered occasionally, they will quickly multiply again digest the exhaustive material aerating your compost in the life. This process is carried out automatically without energy spent on anyone's part, except for the original placement of the material and bin construction. After 3 or 4 weeks, obsessed adapted rainfall and a little watering, your "pot of gold" should be hot to use. Then, simply establish a handful of this composted material fame the small hole 6 inches deep, for pre-started tomato plants several 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 via the top of any embed. Given the proper rain, sunshine and warmth, your tomatoes will consign you a radically early harvest, mainly because you did not discard the "hidden gold".More futher :MODERN INTERIOR