What if……

How do you imagine the world in the future if we continue to pollute it?

What can we do to protect the environment?

What are you doing personally?

- Benefits of using compost as an organic fertilizer

- How to make compost from kitchen waste and your household waste

- Introduction

Making Organic Fertilizer: an effort to save our earth

By : TITIK WINARTI

In an effort to save our earth, one of the basic step EVERYONE of us can do is to reduce and recycle household such as paper, kitchen waste, fruit peels, garden weed, dry grass etc. and make it into compost.

You could use the compost to plant your vegetable/crop in your garden.

Introduction

1. Wet material - Kitchen waste, fruits peels, unwanted vegetable leave & roots.

2. Dry material - newspaper, garden dry grass & leaves, shredded egg tray, coconut husk.

3. Microbe (friendly bacteria, yeast & mould)

- How to make compost from kitchen waste and your household waste

Steps :

1. Cut the wet material to small pieces.

2. Cut the dry material to small pieces.

3. Mix the wet and dry material together in pot with the microbe and stir evenly.

- How to make compost from kitchen waste and your household waste

4. Cover with tiles and allow some space for respiration and aeration.

5. Leave under shed and avoid direct sunlight as heat may destroy the friendly microbe.

6. If possible stir it daily.

7. Compost should be ready by 2-3 weeks.

Steps :

Benefits of using compost as an organic fertilizer

- Making compost from garden and household waste is one of the best things anyone can do.

- It's easy and costs very little in time or effort.

- Making compost will help you reduce pollution.

- Your plants will grow healthier for it. It will save you money on fertilisers too.

Benefits of using compost as an organic fertilizer

*Be Friends of Earth,

Save Our Earth*