Your Recycle Bin For Money Or Environment

I discovered Organic gardening nearly forty years ago, and have been making compost wrong ever since.

Oh, I know that it’s not meant to smell badly, and the worm castings didn’t smell too badly. Of course the stuff from the compost tumbler stank pretty badly, but I knew that it wasn’t proper compost. However, when I built a proper hot compost heap I got good compost that didn’t stink, and when I put it through a seive, it produced some nice crumbly compost.

Now I know that it shouldn’t have produced nice crumbly compost. I should have ended up with something that looked more like a lump of plasticine or putty. Proper compost is mostly water, because it is very good at holding water, and plant roots think that it is magic.

Apparently there are two kinds of plant roots - those that drink water, and those that get food from the soil.

Proper compost isn’t solluble in water, so it doesn’t get mixed up with the water that the water roots are trying to drink.

The other roots can get what they want when they want it from the compost.

That means that I’ve been feeding the wrong roots for nearly four decades! And I thought I was growing things the organic way! Well, I suppose I was. But I was forcing unwanted solluble food onto the roots that were looking for pure water. The main problem with chemical nitrogen fertilizer is that the plants have to absorb too much nitrogen to get enough water to drink. And we organic gardeners have been doing the same thing, though not quite as badly.

Of course, you can only make tiny quantities of good compost, can’t you? That couldn’t be further from the truth.

How would you like to create enough life-giving compost in one day to keep you in compost for the rest of the year? Would you like to be able to run your fingers through the soil and pull up weeds without a ton of hard soil clinging to the roots? You don’t even need a compost bin. Let mice and other vermin move out to your neighbour’s compost bin.

Rod Turner has told us how food grown with colloidal humus compost, without forcing the water roots to absorb unwanted chemicals, has far more vitamins and phytonutrients.

He shows us why colloidal humus compost is so effective that it’s effects can be seen up to 30 years later from a single application. I know that the effects of agricultural poisons are still there 30 years later - that is what we are trying to get away from.