Composted vs Non-composted Plant
Non-composted plant I planted this soon to be avocado tree 2 months ago. Our backyard soil is basically gravel far from the ideal for growing anything. Somehow, we have managed to grow some plants but the problem is the plants easily get sick and eventually die. The best we've grown so far is one lonesome papaya tree but it eventually died when it reached 5 feet. It gave us a couple of papaya fruits. But that's it. I also tried planting my herbs (three types of basil and oregano. I also included sweet potatoes,essentially for the tops alone. But no go. Composted plant And then there was this corner in our backyard where grass and weeds were growing like anything. I dedided to make a compost out of the mangoes that fell from our neighbor's tree. There were so many of them I could have made several liters of mango jam. Problem is it was the indian mango variety. The compost was actually just a small pit where, I threw all our veggie and fruit scrapings from avocado, kala