sheet composting

Sheet composting mimics this system while saving a great deal of effort.

Obviously, it is not possible to state with any precision how fast sheet composting would proceed for you.

This is called "sheet composting" and will be discussed in detail shortly.

In organic gardening, their solution is called sheet composting or mulching.

Sheet composting is the easiest method of all.

Sheet Composting Decomposition happens rapidly in a hot compost heap with the main agents of decay being heat-loving microorganisms.

Instead of making compost heaps or sheet composting, the garden is kept thickly covered with a permanent layer of decomposing vegetation.

One way to speed the sheet composting of something with a high C/N is to amend it with a strong nitrogen source like chicken manure or seed meal.

Many of these materials also act as a direct composting system, such as the mulched clippings of a mulching lawn mower, or other organics applied as sheet composting.

Special events include, on Saturday at noon, a free talk on "Putting Your Garden to Sleep," with techniques to improve the soil such as covercropping, sheet composting and winter mulching.

Instead of first heaping organic matter up, turning it several times, carting humus back to the garden, spreading it, and tilling it in, sheet composting conducts the decomposition process with far less effort right in the soil needing enrichment.

If the soil is moist, airy, and warm and if it already contained high levels of nutrients, and if the organic materials are not ligninous and tough and have a reasonable C/N, then sheet composting will proceed rapidly.

In that sense, putting urea in soil is not that different than putting synthetic vitamin C in a human body Burying kitchen garbage is a traditional form of sheet composting practiced by row-cropping gardeners usually in mild climates where the soil does not freeze in winter.

This method of making compost in the field is known as sheet composting, a variation of which may be achieved after a cereal crop by chopping the straw and stubble (using a forage harvester with delivery spout removed) behind the combine, spreading slurry, and then rotovating the mixture into the top soil.