Garden Compost

by Phil Gibson
(Alden, MI. USA)

Kitchen scraps to the garden create Garden Compost.

Going green doesn't have to be a huge step. Small steps count too. My wife and I live alone, and have a small garden. We bury kitchen scraps like vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, used tea bags or stale bread in the garden. This eliminates four or five pounds of garbage per week from the landfill. This amounts to over a hundred pounds per person per year, but, that isn't the end of it. Our garden produces food, and in the production of food, one unintended by-product is oxygen.

Our garden is about twelve by sixteen feet. We plant in one half and bury the scraps in the other half. Because the scraps contain nutrients that the plants need, we don't have to use chemical fertilizer so we are not putting chemicals into the ground water.

Saving the planet is a noble objective, but, that is not our objective. We like the taste of fresh vegetables. We may be doing it for the wrong reason, but we do it consistently and save money.