Imagine yourself as a chef of a fancy restaurant. To cook a delicious meal, you carefully measure the ingredients and combine them to create wonderful dishes. The same can be said when creating composts. This time, however, instead of the people in the restaurant as your customers, you will be answering the needs of your plants. And just like cooking, you are given the task of putting together in equal amounts the “greens” and “browns” of composting.
“Greens” and “browns” are nicknames which are used to refer to the organic materials …

Many new growers and gardeners avoid making their own compost like the plague! Many people think that it’s difficult to produce, takes too long and will make such an unbearable smell that no one will want to be out in the garden… All of these misconceptions are completely wrong.
Composting is a completely natural process and all you are doing is providing the absolutely perfect conditions for all the elements involved to do their job.
So what is involved in making compost?….. Here comes the funky scientific bit., but it’s only two …