Compost is one of nature's best mulches and soil amendments, and you can use it instead of commercial fertilizers. Making compost is often considered to be complex but all you need to do is provide the right ingredients and let nature do the rest.

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Male So Valie, we have to get the bag of organic material here. So how do you stick out on your lawn and how much do you need on your lawn? Female Okay, will to put on your lawn as I was saying earlier, you want to put on as icing sugar consistency. So pick your get a good hand fold. If you are going to doing a large area that is better use a shovel then your hand that I am demonstrating here right now. Male: Okay. Female So just want to sprinkle in on, and when you are putting in on specially with the shovel, you will find that you get the add place where they are crumpled like this Male: Alright. Female And that is okay because afterwards what you can do lift a rake just quickly, pull it on and it does not take that long. Yeah, that is perfect right there. And if your grass is doing really poorly you want to put in on a little bit bigger like a both like this consistency. If your grass is doing really well, then just put it on really light where you can highly see it. So kind a like icing sugar consistency. And now looks perfect there. Male Now I look that few they are using sand with these. Female That is right! Male Is it important you sand from the homeowner? Female Well, because they have to be have the surface planned and be able to get out of the surface very quickly. The sand is draining away water, but from homeowners where you worried about keeping water than you wants to put on a little bit more of about the san. And you do not want to drain just must much. How much you have promise with drainage in your yard and not in case, they do a sand by itself. Male Okay what about air rating and in prompt dressing, is that important thing to do? Female That is excellent question. Yes, everything is very important and that is very good thing to do to open up the roots system of the plant and the especially if you have very heavy soils. And get that cherry growing really well. Male Okay beside the obviously the nutritional value that is going to be added, what about moisture attention? Female Moisture attention is very important if you put on the organic matter, it helps the whole moisture. You want to look for something that is quite course and you can see this product here is very course. There is a lot of wood shape or large particles in it. That is really helps to act like little sponges to hold the moisture. And when you put it on top of the surface of your lawn it keeps on moisture on top of the surface of your lawn. You do not get as much as evaporation. And you can go longer between watering without stressing out the grass. Male okay Female And on top that you also adding nutrients with this. So that is really important if you want to keep the nutrients in your lawn and not going into the water. Male: Perfect. How often you usually do this? Female I think it should be doing at least once year, if you can do it twice in this spring and then the fall that is ideal. But at the very at least once a year and right now it is ideal time to do it. Male Perfect well, thanks Valie. I always like having you on the shows. You always get some great tips. Female Oh thank you.