Gardening

How To Start Composting

A do-it-yourself guide

Lindsay Olin
The DIY Diaries
Published in
7 min readMay 11, 2023

--

Home composting is great for the garden and the environment!
Photo by Marina Lohrbach on Adobe Stock

Home composting is a practical and sustainable solution for turning kitchen scraps and yard waste into a nutrient-rich soil amendment for your home garden. You can compost organic materials like vegetable peels, coffee grounds, egg shells, grass clippings, leaf mulch, and more. In addition to enriching your garden soil and helping your plants…

--

--

Lindsay Olin
The DIY Diaries

Crazy plant lady, daydreamer, traveler, and freelance writer. Support more garden gab at https://gardengnomeacademy.com/