Thoughts of gardening are usually reserved for the spring and summer months. But what about the winter? Is there nothing you can do for your garden in the chill of winter?
High Road Health Centre suggests that’s not truly the case. Composting during winter has numerous and notable benefits for your garden. This post explores the benefits of composting during winter, and walks you through how to go about composting properly. Here’s to your bountiful garden!
“Spring through to Autumn is generally considered gardening season. For most of us, winter is a time to take a break, do some planning, and dream about next year’s garden. But what about composting? Should we continue to compost through the winter? If you continue to create food waste through the winter, then yes, you should continue to compost. Why send all those valuable nutrients to the landfill?
While heat is a by-product of the chemical process that is occurring, warm weather does help to speed decomposition, and cold weather will slow or even stop it. There are a number of ways that you can help to keep some heat in your compost pile during the winter to prevent decomposition from stopping.
- Volume helps to generate heat. A small pile will not do the job; building a pile that is at least one cubic yard in volume is recommended. Notice the steam coming off of the pile in the photo at the top despite the fact that it’s obviously winter. That’s because of the volume of the pile of wood chips being composted.”
In the process of all this work you are doing throughout the change of seasons, and pain is rearing-its-ugly-head (to which you may not have experienced before), consider the High Road Health Centre as we can offer an array of therapy to you, for example:
Chiropractic; Remedial Massage; Physiotherapy; Audiology; Podiatry
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