Composting

One of the many efforts which we can take is to make our own composting for our plants in the garden. There are a large no. of articles on the web which give a guideline about how to do it. Following those, I also got into making my own compost bucket. So I took a plastic bucket and started putting the daily organic waste in the bucket. This included banana skin, cauliflower remains, skin of peas, onion skins, leaves which I cut from other plants etc. and other kitchen waste which used to be thrown in the daily waste. The bucket looked like this -


After a couple of days I added some dry soil to this basket and added a little water to make the mixture a little moist. Then as days passed, I kept adding kitchen waste and water to the basket, occasionally mixing it to make the mixture homogeneous. After about a month, the process has led to a nice mixture of compost. Look at this -

I have used some of it now for my plants and hope it shows good results. I will surely put the results of this on this blog. But I urge all of you to try this at home and help reduce environment pollution. The kitchen waste which is deposited in dumping grounds and landfills gives rise to methane which is a very harmful greenhouse gas. If we spread this info to each and every house in our neighborhood, think of how much methane can be avoided. So spread the word fast and happy composting.