More Garden to Love

I am awfully glad that we have used our tumbling composter all winter long, as well as a static compost heap to which we've added BiOWiSH™ Compost Boost. What this means is that we have a great supply of garden ready 100% organic compost!  We really need all the compost we've made because we are adding to our garden.  Out in front of my house will be a garden bed that'll be 4' x 3', and then a larger raised bed in back that'll be 12' x 4' and 16" deep.  And I almost forgot the Garbage Can for Potatoes that we'll need to fill as well.  So I'm sure that we will use all of our compost just getting those two gardens and garbage can filled with top soil and compost. 

Our tumbling composter made composting super easy with it's turn handle and sliding door for adding materials.  I make sure that I cut up my kitchen scraps into one inch size pieces...the more sides that can start decomposing the faster the process will be.  We add to our kitchen scraps the leaves that were gathered from last fall that we've stored, along with shredded cardboard, a handful of garden soil to add microorganisms and coffee that our local coffee shop has given to us.  Giving the tumbler a turn every day or so keeps the air circulating and the microorganisms happy.  We check to make sure that the moisture content inside the tumbler is ideal...a handful should feel like a squeezed out sponge...damp but not dripping.

Throughout the fall and winter, as we continued to add composting materials to our tumbler and static heap, I occasionally would wonder what we would do with all the compost that I knew we were making!  It seemed like an enormous amount of materials.  But as the BiOWiSH™ Compost Boost and microorganisms worked their magic, the materials turned into more compact, rich brown soil-like compost.  And the compost itself isn't the only benefit: both my husband and I were pleased at the amount of water we were saving by not running the garbage disposal.  We really saw a difference in our last water bill.  But now that I think of all the garden that needs the rich nutrients that our compost will deliver, I'm doubly glad that we've made all that compost.  I don't think we'll have any to spare for neighbors without composters or compost piles, but I have a feeling we'll have vegetables to share!
Happy Composting!