Garden Compost:\u00a0 MEdium fertility.\u00a0 Dig in or mulch.<\/p>\n
Green waste compost:\u00a0 Low fertility.\u00a0 Dig in or mulch.\u00a0 Available from large-scale municipal recycling centers, likely low in nitrogen but high in potassium.<\/p>\n
Commercial bagged compost:\u00a0 Variable fertility.\u00a0 Dig in or mulch.<\/p>\n
Worm compost:\u00a0 High fertility.<\/p>\n
Strawy animal manures:\u00a0 Medium to high fertility.\u00a0 Must be well rotted before being dug into the soil.\u00a0 Unfortunately, getting organic animal manure is difficult.<\/p>\n
Spent mushroom compost:\u00a0 Medium fertility.\u00a0 Tends to be alkaline, so choose which plants to use it on with care.\u00a0 Can be sourced from organic mushroom growers.<\/p>\n
Leaf mold:\u00a0 Low fertility.\u00a0 Mulch or dig in, depending on age.<\/p>\n
Straw:\u00a0 Low fertility.\u00a0 Source from an organic farm if possible.\u00a0 Best as a mulch.<\/p>\n
Bark chips and shredded prunings:\u00a0 Lower fertility.\u00a0 Best used as a mulch only, and on ornamentals, rather than food plants.\u00a0 If dug in, they can rob nitrogen from the soil.\u00a0 This caution also applies to horse manure with wood chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Garden Compost:\u00a0 MEdium fertility.\u00a0 Dig in or mulch. Green waste compost:\u00a0 Low fertility.\u00a0 Dig in or mulch.\u00a0 Available from large-scale municipal recycling centers, likely low in nitrogen but high in potassium. Commercial bagged compost:\u00a0 Variable fertility.\u00a0 Dig in or mulch. Worm compost:\u00a0 High fertility. Strawy animal manures:\u00a0 Medium to high fertility.\u00a0 Must be well rotted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,95,102],"tags":[391,310,328],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing","category-gardening","category-green","tag-gardening","tag-grow-organic","tag-soil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}