{"id":165,"date":"2022-03-09T16:21:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2024-12-23T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:35:30","slug":"compost-for-the-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paraterra.com\/en\/compost-for-the-lazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Composting the lazy way"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sad\/concerning\u00a0 observation I made in Paraguay was that people will regularly clean their lawn, garden, patio but will burn the cuttings; something I will avoid at all costs. The organic residues are your future fertiliser\/humus if put to use correctly. Why waste such a valuable resource.<\/p>\n

When I started to work with Ramon, I explained to him that burning was not an option for me. But I was also too busy with other projects to install a proper compost pile, so I decide to do i the lazy way. I told him to dump all organic matter at the same spot. \"\"<\/p>\n

At the same time on the other side of the garden a banana plat was growing.<\/p>\n

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Over time and after some storm damages some fallen over banana plants were thrown on to the compost pile. After some time (3-5 years) the compost side look like following while the original banana plant (its siblings) still looked about the same.<\/p>\n

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The accumulation and natural break down of the organic matter had\/has a visible and very obvious increase in fertility. This became a ver nice real life example why it makes sense not to burn the organic matter and rather compost it, even if it’s the lazy way.<\/p>\n

Composting will be a very important activity to increase soil health, soil biome diversity. I will definitely dedicate time and effort into different type of compost experiments:<\/p>\n