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Aerobic Composting and Mulching

Organic wastes are a large part of the city's refuse. You can help reduce that volume and associated cost by mulching/composting your kitchen and garden organic wastes. At the same time help yourself to a free improver and fertiliser and return valuable nutrients to where they belong. Composting is simply a method of speeding up natural processes of decay. A good technique minimises loss of nutrients and thus produces high quality compost.

If you want further details regarding composting and mulching ask for a free magnetic composting flower from the City Council's Customer Service Centre.

This will tell you:

• what to put in
• what to leave out
• the gear you need
• the method to use
• plus infornmation on: no-dig gardens
                                 green manuring
                                 weed mats
                                 bale beds
                                 compost pits
                                 and how to rectify possible problems

Composting is really quite simple, easy and can be a lot of fun too!

With a composter such as the 'Earthmaker', into which the Palmerston North city Council had some input, is especially easy for citizens with age and disability limitations. It is a continuous cycle, self turning device removing the hard work of traditional composting.