Organic Compost - Organic Waste Recycling through composting

Organic compost constitutes an organic waste treatment method that, besides recycling matter that otherwise woul pollute water streams and lands, can give our kitchen garden the lost organic matter through years of intensive activity, closing this way, nature's life cycle.
Composting is an oxidative process that takes place in anaerobian conditions over a group of solid organic materials through the action of several and varied microorganisms. This decomposition of organic compost requires certain air, humidity, temperature and ph conditions that favour the microorganisms work. As a result of these decomposition processes takes place mineralization of part of this organic matter and the stabilization of the remmants, obtaining what is called organic compost (stabilized organic matter similar to humus), and also C02 and water.
The use of organic compost as a soil amendment, constitutes much more than a simple fertilization, because is not only adding nutrients and organic matter, the compost improves the structure and soil properties, acting over water retention properties, draining, soil airing, or nutrient retention so it is available for the plants.
Besides, it is an incentive for the existence of microorganisms that do their own recycling work.

Homenade Organic Compost

Even though industrial composting can carry certain risks due to the presence of toxic substances, if we make organic compost at home, we can choose our own compost materials. We must choose waste remmants of natural precedence, that cannot be polluted with toxic substance. Ususally we will use plant based material, from grass clippings and pruned trees and shrubs, as well as organic waste from our kitchen (potato shavings, carrot tops, etc). The use of animal excrement, can be beneficious for a high quality organic compost made at home, but could also be dangerous, due to the presence of patogen microorganisms, that cannot be eliminated if we not control accurately the organic compost process and we don't keep temperature above 65 º centigrades for a long enough period of time.


Besides, the excesive use of plant based material that is still very new, fish remmants, meat or other matter rich in proteins, will yield a putrefaction process instead, that we must always aoid.
In case we have enouh ground to fertilize in our garden, it is convenient to make our own organic compost piles. If the enviromental conditions are not good to let the compost piles outside, we have several compost bins or compost trumblers made of
many different materials and sizes that can help us keep our organic compost pile in optimal conditions so the compost pile it' ready to use, causing you little inconvenience.