Compost from your kitchen waste

If you want to make compost but do not have anywhere to do it or if your plot is too far away to keep running down there with a bag of kitchen waste; do not despair there is still a way that your can use.

Let me introduce you to Vermicomposting, or as it is more commonly know as Worm Composting. This method is increasingly becoming a very popular method of turning your kitchen waste into compost

It is a very simply technique; worms are introduced into a box that is full of high-fibre bedding material. The worms then quickly eat through this and any of your kitchen waste that are added. This makes a nutrient-rich cast or worm droppings.

These tiny worms are a very efficient at breaking down material, they can get through there own weight in organic matter every day. In doing this secretions in their intestinal tracts liberate more plant nutrients of which the end result is humus containing five times more nitrogen and seven times more phosphorus, and with 11 times more potassium than normal compost. Great material for your crops.

Do not be put off by the worms, that is only an irrational squeamishness. Once you fully understand how the worms work and see the organic material that they produce you will be hooked. A worm bin will be able to recycle all of your kitchen waste and if you are able to use it in conjunction with a lager-scale compost heap on a vegetable patch, which is regularly stocked up with dead plant matter like leaves, manure and grass cutting you will be well away.

You can buy readily available worm bins from many suppliers. The best ones are a plastic tiered system that makes the compost very easy to harvest. All you have to do is put your kitchen waste in the bottom layer, and the worms will come up and work on it. As their supply runs out all you do is add another tier with more bedding and waste. When the worms more up to the next level they leave their casts behind in the lower tier. It is this wonderful matter that you need to put on your soil. As a bonus, the system collets excess liquid, which makes for a wonderful plant liquid feed that you could use on pot plants or vegetables.

This really is a great way to turn your kitchen waste into valuable compost. Remember that it is not just any old soil bulk-up sort of compost but good-quality compost for your garden, and all from your kitchen leftovers.