You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Welcome to Episode 7 of the Beginners Garden podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today.

Today we're going to be talking about composting. If you listen to episode five,

creating a fertile soil, you heard me referring to the importance of adding organic matter to your

soil, specifically compost. You may be thinking, why should I compost? The basic reasons that I compost is it saves money. It reduces my

dependence on fertilizer. I do use organic fertilizer, but the more compost that I can use in my garden,

the less I have to pay for organic fertilizer. And let's be honest, organic fertilizer is not not cheap another reason is it repurposes

organic material instead of putting it in landfills you've got banana pills and onion scraps and

just anything you can think of that is in your kitchen and instead of throwing that in the trash can

you're utilizing that in your garden

it becomes this beautiful concoction of soil so to speak that you can use in your garden but the biggest

reason that i compost is it gives me a bigger harvest in my garden it adds nutrients to my soil that I could not get any

other place and my garden is more healthy and it's more productive. And to me, that is the biggest

reason of all to compost. I hesitated to do a podcast on composting because there is a plethora of information on composting online,

so much so that it can get overwhelming. And that's why I decided I needed to devote an episode

on it because all the information can get overwhelming. Especially if you've never composted before, composting must seem pretty

involved and you probably have lots of questions. How do you get started? Is it expensive? Do I have to

build a compost bin? If I don't have the money or building skill to construct a compost bin,

is it even possible? If I have a small garden, is it even

worth the hassle? Here's the deal. You can get pretty involved in composting, but for me, I like

to stick with the basics and make it as simple as possible. In this episode, I'm going to give you

the basics of composting, what methods I've

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