Composting Idea – How to Turn Food Leftovers to Fertiliser

Composting Idea – How to Turn Food Leftovers to Fertiliser

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As the community now is getting more and more aware of how to recycle to aid out mother nature with less food or rubbish being thrown out. Composting is a way of recycling your food into organic, rich in nutrients, and greatly improves soil moisture, and the best part you can even do it on your space-constrained HDB flat area.

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By composting, you can transform your total waste into useful nutrients for your plants, which means you can have healthy soils for your plants. Which healthy plants require a balance of carbon-rich browns and nitrogen-rich greens, which browns are gardening waste like twigs, dried level, cardboard, newspaper, and greens are grass, leaves, vegetables and coffee grounds.

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While there will be some natural gas during this composting process, you should avoid adding this thing:

• Cooked food and oily waste
• Animal-based food scraps like meat, fish, and dairy
• Animal or human waste
• Diseased plant clippings
• Non-biodegradable/paper-plastic mixes like disposable coffee cups, cardboard food boxes, plastic-coated paper pamphlets

 

To compose, you can simply buy those ready-made compost brings made of Hugh quality plastic and stainless steel can. Here are some of the steps:

1. Line the bottom of your bin with dry leaves and other “browns”
2. Fill the first ¼ of the container with soil
3. After that, fill the bin with alternate layers of browns and greens.
4. Top off with soil to deter pests

There are few composting ideas or methods which are way such like:

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1. Vermicomposting and bokashi are the methods that can speed up the process. With the help of a bundle of worms which will simply will beneficial to soil ecosystems, boosting nutrients manyfold while eliminating harmful parasites.

Composting worms (from $50/200g) purchased from gardening supply shops can be expensive. Alternatively, you can get spare worms from fellow gardeners on these Facebook groups for little or no cost:

• Singapore Worm Composting
• Singapore Vermicomposting – Worm Composting
• SG Composting BLUE WORM group

Compost ready in 2 weeks

Bonus: Vermicomposting produces vermicast – worm poop. Known as “black gold”, these can be worth more than 10x regular compost due to its concentration of nutrients.

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2. Bokashi for those who have small space and this composting that can digest than cooked food, meats, and dairy which used the microbe-rich mix to break it down to fermentation. And to setup up, all you need is:

1. Add food waste to the bin once a week
2. Atop each 3-4cm layer of scraps, sprinkle bokashi mix.
3. Press down firmly to squeeze the air out, before sealing the container
4. Drain the “bokashi tea” every 1-2 days – using it immediately
5. After about 2 weeks, move the solid waste to your compost bin.

Compost ready to use in 1-2 months

So here you go, with these easy steps, you are basically creating your rich soils for your plants to grow happily and reduce waste production.