Homemade Compost - No Chemicals

Every vegetable and Fruit that we get in the market has a touch of chemical, either in the form of pesticide or fertilizer. It not only affects the quality of the produce but it in, turn it affects the quality of soil permanently. And the alarming truth is that, all this comes with the cost of Our Health !!  When you can grow your own vegetable or make your own organic garden, don't you think it is even possible to replace the chemicals in an organic way.  People are getting closer towards buying organic food. It's a different style of agriculture. Organic farmers often control pests by growing a greater variety of crops. They increase the fertility of their fields through nitrogen-fixing plants, or by adding compost instead of applying synthetic fertilizer. Yep !! No chemical, homemade compost is possible with the vegetable and fruit waste that gets piled up as kitchen waste. These Organic Compost feeds the soil with organic nutrients that in turn empowers the plant to produce healthier product. At the end, Healthy, Nutritious, No Chemical produce is achieved.

            

METHOD 1  - STEPS TO PREPARE HOME MADE COMPOST

1. Choose a bag / container / pack as the base to hold the raw materials for compost.

   

   A bucket or a Bag or a Container of any material

2. Make some holes to the base to allow the air to flow freely.
3. Place a layer of soil into the base.
4. Put in all the kitchen waste (esp. vegetable and fruit remains, dried leaves). It doesn't matter if the kitchen waste is dry or wet. 

   

   All your vegetable waste is the raw material for healthy compost

5. On top of the kitchen waste, add some brown matter. Brown matter here indicates materials like wood waste / powder, coconut husk, dry leaves, newspaper bits, straw, husk etc. The ratio of kitchen waste to the brown matter must be around 1:2. That is, for one layer of kitchen waste add two layers of brown matter.  

   

   Homemade compost preparation

6. Close the base with the lid or a plastic cover or a paper and keep away from wet area. 
7. Twice a week give a nice shake to all the ingredients and close the base again.

As days pass, you will notice decrease in volume of the contents. If anytime you find the water to ooze out, it indicates that the brown matter needs to be increased (Add few more brown matter to it). 

The entire contents get transformed to fine particle (sand like) Compost. For a volume of  25 Liter raw materials, it takes 2 months for the Compost formation. 

 

         

        The End - Home Made Compost

Adding a handful of the formed fine particle compost, to a potted plant, feeds the soil with the essential nutrients and increases the productivity organically.

P.S : If you find earthworms in the content, don't freak out. It just speeds up the process.