Compost: The Real Organic Garden Black Gold

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Compost or what some enthusiasts call “black gold,” is the heavyweight champ of the organic gardening world. The Real Black Gold – Compost By Ron Krupp     After a short Autumn snooze, there still may still be time to spread some compost in your garden, that is, if the ground hasn’t already frozen. It doesn’t usually happen until mid-November in my neck of the woods, depending on your location. Woodchuck gardeners of the organic bent like myself consider composting the “soul food” of the soil. Compost or what some enthusiasts call “black gold,” is the heavyweight champ of the organic gardening world. Compost is becoming rather “in” these days as natural food, and organic gardening and farming are making resurgence throughout the United States. Healthy food without the use of harmful chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and genetically modified seeds is a priority for many families. It is especially true because of the increased rates of cancer. Ironically, most farms and gardens used nothing but organic methods as late as the 1930s.  (That’s about the time nitrate fertilizer, (Chilean of nitrate), was dug from the rich bat caves of Chili where the soil is sandy, dry, and easy to mine.)   Animal Manure and compost were inseparable in those days, and rotted manure was the main source of fertilizer on small New England hill farms.  Mucking out animal stalls was as much a part of life as milking.  It was a hard but necessary task.  Farmers knew instinctively that animal manures and other vegetable matter were more beneficial to the soil after going through a process of breakdown and stabilization. * Animal manures add beneficial organisms, disease resistance and organic matter to the compost pile.  Some commercial compost operations no longer use animal manures in their mix of organic ingredients.  It significantly…

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