Homemade garden soil improver saves money

Compost is a soil improver which makes your soil a better place for growing plants. It offers two main benefits: improving the physical soil condition and providing a reservoir of plant nourishment.

Physical soil aspects

Compost provides a crumbly texture that makes it easy for water, air, nutrients and plant roots to move through. A poor soil structure inhibits roots development and restricts the flow of plant essentials.

Soil nourishment aspects

Compost has a sponge-like structure that holds onto:

• Nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus
• Micronutrients e.g. iron, manganese, calcium, copper, zinc
• Water

Compost improves your soil's capacity to retain nutrients and water. It prevents these nourishments from leaching away, and makes them available to plants much like a slow-release fertiliser.

The all-round soil improver

Adding compost improves soil, no matter what kind you have in your garden.

Besides improving your soil’s physical and nutritional aspects, homemade compost provides living soil probiotics; beneficial microbes that can help suppress pests and diseases.

Homemade compost is better than store bought, as bought compost has diminished microbial life due to the usual delay between manufacture and use.

Home composting your wastes enables you to make your own organic soil improver, and reduce the need to buy fertilisers and pesticides. Transforming nutrient-rich kitchen waste into high quality compost is simple with Bioverter.