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How can compost be used?

Updated: 10/8/2023
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Gardeners tend to have three main uses for compost. Specifically, the dark brown, fresh-smelling, organic matter rich soil may be used as mulch, natural fertilizer, or soil amendments. Any one of the three uses adds nutrients to soil and improves soil structure by encouraging air and water pore spaces. Improved air and moisture movement means improved well being of the soil food web below ground, and of plants above and below ground. Such are the ways in which compost may be used, be it outside wherever the need may be, or inside with houseplants.

In contrast to the above case of garden compost is the term potting compost. The latter is what is sold in local garden centers. It's a mixture to which fertiilzer is added. It may be used for growing seeds or plants in pots.

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Compost is used to enhance the soil and add nutrients, either by mixing it into the soil, adding it to the soil as the seeds or plants are sown, or making a compost tea and watering plants with it.

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Improvements in soil fertility, moisture, structure and texture are the benefits of compost. Compost is the dark-colored, fresh-smelling, nutrient-rich organic material that is human-guided and Mother Nature-made. Its uses therefore range from soil amendments to soil fertilizer and mulch.

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You can apply it to your garden, yard, flower beds, crops.

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you can use compost for anything really, in your little pots to plant things or you could use it for like a big cabbage patch or vegatable patch.

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Improvements in soil fertility, moisture, structure, and texture are the benefits of compost. Soil amendments, compost, fertilizer, and mulch are its uses.

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