How To Make A Simple Easy, Compost Bin
Patti, the Garden Girl, shows you a simple and easy way to make a compost bin for your organic lawn or garden.
Step 1: Compost
Now, if you don't want to use livestock in your garden to fertilize your garden, you need something. You need some compost. And this is a really easy way to do that. It's some galvanized wire, four feet high and five feet long, and it naturally wants to go in a circle, and I've fastened it together right here and we're just going to dump as many leaves that I've collected here and allow them to compost.
Step 2: Raise the Soil Level
Now we can also take this, and we could put it in a raised bed. So if we're building our soil and we're trying to get our soil level up with rich organic composted matter, we can use one of these and just pile in all of the leaves. Now not only is this good for leaves, but it's also good for any grass clippings.
Step 3: The Size of The Compost Bin
For about twenty dollars you can have your own homemade compost bin, you can put it anywhere you need it to be. It's flexible - you can make a bigger one if you need it to be bigger, you can make one that's even taller. I like this height because I'm able to actually reach in and put the leaves or grass clippings or whatever I'm going to add to this.
Step 4: Vegetable Matter
Now you need to make sure that you're only putting vegetable matter in here. Only organic matter. You don't want to put any sort of bones or any sort of waste products or anything like that that you would eat. You want this be just basically leaves, and any grass clippings - you don't want any sort of rodents or anything coming in and foraging in here, so you just want to keep it with whatever you have outside in your lawn.
Step 5: Fertilized Lawn
So basically, all I have to do is just pile in the leaves on top of each other. I've got a lot more that I'm going to put in there, and what I'm going to do is just going to leave it there till Spring, then I'm just going to pop the wire off and I'm going to have rich compost to spread out and fertilize my lawn. So goodbye to all those petroleum-based fertilizers - I've got the newest, best, cheapest way to fertilize my lawn or anything I need fertilized. I'm Patty Moreno the GardenGirl - thanks for watching.
