Buy or make your own compost?

The debate is on........ buy an organic compost or make your own?

If you listen to the die hard organic's out there (& I'm one of them), making your own compost is really the only way to go. It delivers huge satisfaction of seeing your seedlings grow in your own compost; eating vegetables that have come out of your own soil. If you are looking for a recipe for making your own organic compost, look down the right of this page for some links (or just click here if you want to go directly there)

As well as gets rid of all this pesky cuttings, grass clippings and a whole range of other garden and kitchen related things without contributing to the land fill problems associated to built-up areas.

It takes time to make your own compost, but it's time well spent and the rewards are huge.

But, what if you don't have the time (or you don't have the space)? What are you to do on a balcony or in an apartment complex?

Well, if you live in Johannesburg, Pikitup (our local refuse removers) have been working on a solution for about a year now.

Quoted directly from the Pikitup website:

• Pikitup has launched several sustainable development initiatives in line with the global aims of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. One of these initiatives is Pikitup’s composting plant, situated at the Panorama site in Roodepoort. The composting plant processes green waste into soil-enhancing compost, which is sold to either the agricultural sector or to city homeowners for use in suburban gardens.

The compost is available in 30dm3 bags at most of the garden refuse sites around Johannesburg for a meagre R 10 per bag. A list of garden refuse sites is available at the pikitup website.

The compost is made from your garden waste (that you religiously trailer to the "dump").

So, if you don't have the time, the inclination, the space to make your own compost, you can now feed your organic moster by buying local and help to keep your environment clean.