Buying Professionally Prepared Compost or Simply Preparing Your Own

Every keen gardener knows the best form of recycling in the garden is the compost heap. Whether you use products bought from compost manufacturers or compost at home you are doing your bit for helping the environment. The golden rule of composting at home is the hotter the compost pile the better the finished compost. Almost everything grown in the garden can be returned to the garden through composting and the biggest benefit is that it is organic.

If you are new to composting and need to know what you can compost, then to put it simply anything that rots naturally can compost. The main difference with compost manufacturer’s products and home composting is that composting at home is all natural and contains no chemical ingredients. Anything that can decompose can be used for the compost heap but the fastest material to decompose is grass cuttings, add to the mix some ‘brown’ ingredients such as leaves and woody stems and you are well on your way to perfect compost. Just remember that only having a pile of green grass cuttings will end up as a wet and slimy pile and fail to compost, so ensure there is a balance of brown and green.

For those of you who like to garden but don’t have the time for home composting there are many compost manufacturers who supply excellent compost and fertilisers for the garden. Many compost manufacturers these days make peat-free and chemical free compost by using recyclable materials that are eco friendly, and are offering products that strike a balance with the environment and plant needs. Peat free compost is eco friendly and naturally produced compost made from waste that would normally go to a landfill site but gets recycled and made into a peat substitute.