Your Guide to Composting at Home
The calendar says it’s now officially spring, and here in the Rouge River watershed area we’re having some warm, sunny days enticing us outside.
You may be accustomed to “cleaning up” the garden beds this time of year. You may be eager to work outside on a sunny day. However, this is a friendly reminder that your pollinators and beneficial insects are still dormant inside brown plant stems and under fallen leaves. To protect these important and imperiled insects, you want to wait until after we get a full week of temperatures that go above 50 degrees F before spring cleaning. After that, most of our insect allies will be hatched out and starting their busy season, and you can be confident you’re not harming anyone.
Well then, what’s an energetic gardener to do on a sunny day? One option, if you don’t have one already, is to start a composting system in your yard!
Source: Friends of the Rouge
