The Advantages of Making a Compost Pile

Making your own compost has many advantages. For one thing composting provides you with an economically sustainable, renewable and completely endless supply of soil, fertilizer and conditioner for your garden. Best of all making compost doesn’t have to cost you a cent.

Composting can also help you amend many different types of soil. Adding compost improves the fertility of your soil. It also helps attract bugs and earthworms that like to feast on the waste matter created from the aerobic activity that goes on while waste matter is breaking down. These garden creatures in themselves help the soil in your composting pile turn over and create a luscious, nutrient rich fertilizer that encourages healthy root development in plants.

One of the other advantages of making a compost pile is that the organic matter provided in the nitrogen will help keep your soil in a healthy condition. Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus will be produced naturally by the feeding of micro-organisms creating an inexpensive and very effective soil conditioner.

Another advantage of a compost pile is that it allows you a place to discard leaves and other cuttings, especially in the fall. This can save you a pretty penny when it comes to buying garbage bags and a lot of labor when it comes to having to drag waste to the curb.

If you are making a compost pile then you are also doing the environment a favor. Composting allows our landfills to be less full and helps separate garden waste from more toxic waste so that less infertile or toxic degraded matter ends up in our land in the long run.