How composting helps your garden grow.
Almost a third of the waste from households around Frome could be home composted, making good use of some foods – fruit and vegetable peelings, egg shells, tea bags and coffee grounds – and a little shredded card or paper as well as all those prunings, cuttings, clippings and more.
Heat, moisture, air and what one composting expert from Frome called "the wee beasties" of the garden then turn all that waste into a free productive resource.
And what a resource, as good compost is not only a free fertiliser, but a soil improver to retain moisture and a mulch to suppress weeds, saving money, time and water, while avoiding the use of chemicals.
Read more: http://www.fromestandard.co.uk/Share-skills-composting-helps-garden-grow/story-20569164-detail/story.html
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