Houston Tree Service Shares Tip Regarding How To Make Great Compost

As a Southeast Texas tree service company with tree, land clearing and mulch Houston services, we like to see more weekend gardening enthusiasts get even greener. Because composting is a project both easy and green that anybody can try, here the arborist shares the basics on how make a composter that may help you produce the best Texas compost available, simply from the green waste of your kitchen and back yard.

The easy way to construct a compost pile.

The easiest way to make a composter is super simple. A compost pile should be built on good soil and a drainage system made from a layer of sticks and twigs in some corner of your back yard. At the center situate a PVC pipe with lots of holes drilled up and down it. This will be useful for aeration as the compost pile grows.

Layer it!

Layer the following:

1. Build continuing layers of leaves and other green garden refuse. Southeast Texas compost is normally made from oak leaves, pine needles, and yard clippings. Oak leaves decompose nicely, while pine needles lend an acidity that is adored by azaleas and other native shrubs. You may also add the egg shells, coffee grounds, and banana peels in the green debris layer – when it comes to decomposition, it’s all good!–but with two exceptions: Do not add weeds with seed heads, and do not add animal products like meat scraps and animal fat. Those two items are definite no-nos for the compost pile.
2. Cover each layer with some good soil. Adding cow fertilizer makes it better. Drizzle each layer with the manure or organic fertilizer (if using store-bought, make sure to use the kind that doesn’t contain a weed killer)
3. Keep the pile damp. In winter, cover with plastic to prevent erosion and exposure to high levels of rainfall. Wiggle the PVC pipe occassionally to keep things loose.

Turn It!

After the pile is built, turn it with a pitchfork. This will mix ans aerate the compost and prevent the bacterial process from overheating.

When the leaves and green waste have rotten into a dark brown soil blend, with bits of leaves still identifiable, it is prepared for your garden. Speckle it around your flower beds and shrubbery. Use it on your plant garden. It creates an organic and healthy soil addition that will be of benefit to the expansion of all your plants. Then, while your neighbors admire your yard, you can tell them the best Texas compost around is made in your own yard, then share with them how they can make a composter of their own.

As an arborist, as we mulch Houston green debris and natural materials from development and construction sites, we are in awe by how swiftly nature works to replenish itself, and composting, as it is a chemical breaksown process into a nutrient-rich food substance, is the prime demonstration of how nature returns all old things into resources for new expansion. When you think about it, sharing composting information is a beautiful thing!

Katherine Parker submits info articles for Southeast Texas, LLC. Here the arborist addresses do-it-yourself Texas compost with directions on the way to make a composter of your very own.