For those of you who have dogs at home, where do your dogs relieve themselves, and where do you put their waste? Don’t you know that instead of throwing your dogs’ feces in the garbage, you can make fertilizer out of it?
We are renting a house with a spacious yard full of fruit-bearing trees and grass. My dogs can’t access the yard easily because there’s a bamboo fence. So, what they usually do is they relieve themselves in the grassy area of my garden which is disgusting to see. So, my husband and I decided to dig a compost pit in the fenced area of the yard. Every morning, we pick up their feces in the garden and drop it in the compost pit.
The advantage of making a compost pit for dogs’ waste is you can fertilize your soil and you can limit the spread of diseases and bacteria like E. Coli because you won’t have to throw the waste in the garbage. However, the disadvantage is you can’t use the dogs’ waste to fertilize the soil of your root crops.
Do you want to know how to make your own compost pit? Here’s how:
- If you have a spacious yard, choose the area that is away from root crops or the vegetable garden.
- Dig a hole in that area.
- Put some stones at the bottom of your dug hole, just enough to cover the floor of the hole. You also can use gravel.
- Choose the size of your bin. The bin I chose can hold 8-10 liters. You can choose bigger bins if you have many dogs at home. Make tiny holes at the bottom of the bin, this is for drainage purposes.
- Finally, put the bin on top of the stones or gravel and make sure to cover it.
Now that you already know how to create compost pit for your dog’s wastes, why don’t you try it out, too? Let me know once you’ve tried it, I would be glad to receive your feedback.
