Getting your hands on the appropriate compost tools in order to manage your own organic material can reduce the waste that we send out to the landfills and give your landscaping and gardens the benefit of organic compost. Listed below are some tools that you’ll need to start your own compost.
1. Compost needs to be turned and transferred from point A to point B. You may use manure fork for these particular tasks. Contrary to a hay fork, a manure fork has 4 to 5 tines arranged just like a shovel blade. They are narrow in contrast to a garden fork and are intended to get a good forkful of material which is a mix of hay and manure. Thus they do a superb job on a mix of partially composted and fully composted organic matter. Search for one in which the tines are close enough together so that the material will not quickly fall through yet wide enough to allow good penetration without blocking.
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2. A rake is great for leveling the soil after it has been turned. It also cleans the ground surface from any tough clods of earth or larger stones that can block the planting. Be sure you obtain a bow rake. The bow rake has short tines on one side mounted on a metal frame-the so-called “bow”. The flat side of the bow rake can be used in smoothing the soil before plants are sown.
3. To get those last crumbling bits of matter at the bottom of the pile and for spreading the finished compost around a stand of plants, a fantastic shovel is hard to beat. You will not want a digging spade here nor the normal narrow bladed garden shovel, but instead a wide bladed, fairly light but sturdy tool. Quickly you can develop the peculiar flick of the wrist that allows you to deposit a shovel full of compost between a few plants without disturbing either.
4. To enjoy a well prepared and separated compost, a garden sieve is absolutely appropriate. Many are made to fit the garden cart so the material could be sifted and separated, ready to move to the plot for use. A two inch mesh permits good sizing with easy fall through. When using the sieve it is easy to get the very best results with throwing unrotten material and living perennial roots to the gathering bin, partially rotted material to the working bin, and undesirable matter like bottle tops or plastic into a garbage bucket. Black gold goes into the cart.
These are simply some compost tools that will aid to achieve an effective compost pile. Enrich the earth and start composting today! Buy what you need to get going and also read more articles and tips on composting.
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