My 98 yo grandmother didn't fertilize. She composted everything. She had a jar on the floor of the kitchen and every peel she used went back into the soil.
I have two really nice turning compost bins. You can put shredded junk mail in there too. I should add you don't need a fancy bin. For years my compost bin was a circle of chicken wire where I threw grass clippings, potato peels, whatever I had. (No meat or greasy scraps, alternate "green" from vegetables with "brown" grass clips no weeds with seeds, shredded fallen leaves, shredded paper.)
My 98 yo grandmother didn't fertilize. She composted everything. She had a jar on the floor of the kitchen and every peel she used went back into the soil.
I have two really nice turning compost bins. You can put shredded junk mail in there too. I should add you don't need a fancy bin. For years my compost bin was a circle of chicken wire where I threw grass clippings, potato peels, whatever I had. (No meat or greasy scraps, alternate "green" from vegetables with "brown" grass clips no weeds with seeds, shredded fallen leaves, shredded paper.)
I put my chickens on my garden in the winter and let them eat the leftovers. I fertilized my first year and haven't needed to since.