Simple Composting

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Many make composting seem like rocket science. It’s just not that hard!! My grandma,at her home at 608 Texas Avenue in Austin,TX,composted in a box around her fig tree. Nothing fancy,she just thew her coffee grounds,egg shells,etc. in there. I am about the same. I;’ve never had a fancy compost,just a pile or a 3 or 4 sided bin. That’s it. You can compost in a small area or large,doesn’t matter- just get started. Take all vegetable peelings,leaves,coffee grounds,egg shells,fruit rinds &cores and put them on the ground,in a bin or a fancy “composter”,add a little dirt,stir and “voila!”- YOU are composting! That’s it! You’re there! You have arrived!! The dirt is the innoculant- like eating yoghurt for us. The dirt’s full a’good bugs! It gets the digestion of the organic matter started. Soon,your veggie scraps,leaves,etc. will turn into soil. A healthy pile will also get earthworms crawlin’through it adding worm castings as well as helping to break stuff down into dirt. You have just created a life giving organic gardening product. Use it to enrich your soil.