Many people who maintain gardens have a large amount of organic waste, from grass clippings to leaves and dead plants. Unfortunately, many waste money and time having these wastes transported to a landfill. It isn’t just a waste of good compost; it’s a waste of everything that goes into the process of transporting it (the garbage man’s time, the money you pay for the removal, etc). It is tru
Daily Mail is recommended Bokashi bran from Garden Boutique on Saturday, November 8, 2008Compost acceleratorSPEED up composting with a mixture of active bran and molasses. Inoculated with friendly Ems (effective micro-organisms, such as bacteria, yeast and fungi), you will soon see your kitchen waste rotting quicker without bad smells.£6.95 for 1kg from Garden Boutique (0121 2247390, www.gardenbo
Container compost (soil mix)A peat-based compost with moisture retaining granules and added fertilizer that is specially formulated for use in window boxes and other containers. This is how it looks.How to make the best compost.
Plants in containers need a growing medium that is water retentive and well aerated. Potting composts (soil mixes) come in various formulations that are suitable for different plant requirements. A standard potting compost is usually peat-based and is suitable for all purposes. However, regular watering is vital when using peat-based composts as once they are allowed to dry out completely they are
The debate is on........ buy an organic compost or make your own?
If you listen to the die hard organic's out there (& I'm one of them), making your own compost is really the only way to go. It delivers huge satisfaction of seeing your seedlings grow in your own compost; eating vegetables that have come out of your own soil. If you are looking for a recipe for making your own organic compost,
Building a compost pile creates more anxiety and obsession among gardeners than any other gardening activity. So before you start a pile, remember one thing: Relax. "There's no right or wrong way of composting, and people get panicked that they have the wrong recipe," says Dr. Maynard. "Composting is a natural phenomenon—it's decomposing; you're just helping it along a bit."
Composting is a wonderful thing. It allows you to use organic / vegetable waste from your kitchen and garden, thereby reducing the amount of stuff going to landfills, and producing something useful that will help your garden grow healthier. Making your own compost requires a little bit of effort. Although compost can be made by piling or heaping organic material, you'll get better and faster
Compost plays an important role in this Green Prophet’s life as has been written about in previous posts, and over the years I’ve become somewhat of an advocate. I must have spoken with hundreds of people on the topic and have convinced a good many to at least try composting in their...
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Q. Even if it's a poorer source of nitrogen than oil-based products (urea, ammonium nitrate, and ammonium sulfate), won't compost (particularly composted manure) get the job done? That's a completely free and renewable resource. My garden beds this year are heavily composted with manure and the plants are all absolutely gorgeous. Next year I want to use the Mittleider Method, as it looks very
If you intend to make your own compost pile, it would be nice to make an enclosure or compost bin for your convenience and general neatness. There are a number of compost bins commercially available in various garden stores. You can buy it if you have the money or you can do what I did, make your own compost bin. It’s not difficult and the materials you need are not that many. You can do it with
Well, there’s no doubt about it, composting is a good practice that any self-respected gardener should learn to do. But the question really is what materials we could make into a compost and which ones we cannot. We have been told that composting can be done with any organic material. Well, in theory that may be true, however, in real life it may not be always so.There are a several organic mate
If you intend to make your own compost pile, it would be nice to make an enclosure or compost bin for your convenience and general neatness.
There are a number of compost bins commercially available in various garden stores.
You can buy compost bin if you have the money or you can make your [...]
If you’re a gardener then you should not mind getting your hands dirty. In this line of work, you need to handle plants, soil, rocks, fertilizer, soil conditioners, etc. and not all times a pair of gardening gloves is handy.
At times using glove can prevent you handling some delicate stuff. In this [...]
After watching this video and learning how to make a compost bin that rotates…then actually making it yourself, you won’t have to worry about having all those extra veggies scraps that “go to waste” in the trashcan. After composting them, you’ll have excellent soil in 14 to 21 days for your garden. If you don’t [...]
Get The Curse, c’est beaucoup de bleeps clinquants et des lignes de basse qu’on se verrait écouter peinard en faisant la gueule. Pour autant, c’est plutôt le sourire que l’on retrouve à l’écoute des productions de Jay Shepheard, assurément l’une des révélations de l’année. Pas trop éloigné du son Manuel Tur et Drumpoet Community [...]
The volunteer tomato plant that has been growing out of my compost bin definitely looks healthy but given its rapid foliage growth and no fruit I guess I don’t need to do any soil tests to confirm my compost is high in nitrogen. Note to self, don’t grow tomatoes in pure compost.
Photo Credit: Norma Rans
When starting that garden for your new Hernando or Citrus County, Florida home, the best place to start is with composting. Composting can save on waste and provide a nutritious additive to your soil.
Pick a nice sunny spot away from the house to start your compost bin. [...]
In recent years, composting has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as there has been more and more emphasis put on the need to recycle. Not only is composting beneficial to the planet because it is an effective way to recycle organic material, but it also creates a wonderful, nutrient rich product to add to planting soil. Compost bins provide a good way to get started with your own composting projec
Noticed this plant before thinking it was a weed growing next to my compost bin, but today I noticed it was actually growing out of a small slat in my compost bin. After a little more inspection I realized the distrinct tomato plant look and smell. Guess I was wrong to think those green tomatoes I threw in last fall were too immature to have viable seeds...
A few months ago we sat, as we like to do, by the fire at our favourite local café having our morning coffees.
And, as we also like to do, we steered the conversation with the lovely café owner around to the rich and glorious topic of compost.
When we left, we headed down the hill to the hardware, where we bought a small bucket that now lives in the café kitchen, for the food scraps and coffe
Well I been asked to if I knew anything about Organic Compost so here is the best ways i found to make compost.I'm starting to grow wheaping willow trees so I hope this helps with all your planting needs.Compost serves as a growing medium,or a porous, absorbent material that holds moisture and soluble minerals, providing the support and nutrients in which most plants will flourish.Organic compost
Many people who maintain gardens have a large amount of organic waste, from grass clippings to leaves and dead plants. Unfortunately, many waste money and time having these wastes transported to a landfill. It isn’t just a waste of good compost; it’s a waste of everything that goes into the process of transporting it (the garbage man’s time, the money you pay for the removal, etc). It is tru
Most gardeners have long understood the value of dark rich soil for their gardens and trees. In a world constantly being polluted by garbage composting your green food wastes and yard material not only can ...
Shortly after we moved here, the boys started an organism unit in science. Zach’s class had earthworms as one of their organisms and his teacher sent home a note asking for vegetable scraps to add to their compst for the earthworms. So, now that the weather is a bit better (*ahem* warmer…sort of) I’ve been thinking a bit about starting my own compost pile. There’s some good
It is very common that almost each individual interested in growing garden or lawn wishes to grow it successfully. But, for few it is a problem to purchase costly fertilizers.
There is no need to worry because leaves can be used as a good lawn fertilizer after composting.
More and more gardeners seem to [...]
Composting has become a popular means of recycling organic materials so that they can be used in beneficial ways instead of adding them to a landfill. In addition to being a great way to participate in recycling efforts, composting is also a great way to generate rich organic materials that can be added to soil for organic garden projects. Compost bins provide a simple and easy way to help people
I didn't get deeply enough into this one - could have worked up some darker values - but something distracted me and I quit before getting there.My songs and CDs
My compost pile loves me. I know this because it tells me so.
Since as much as 25% of landfill space is composed of organic waste, we're regular composters into a pile in our backyard. Raw vegetable and fruit scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells go into a container just outside the kitchen door and then into a compost pile mixed with grass clippings and mulched leaves. Since it's been a
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen
As part of our ongoing environmental strategy, we are supporting National Compost Awareness Week. We have a Swedish made hot composter for disposing of our food and biodegradable consumables waste, which seems be working well. However we have now decided to expand upon this idea by installing a hot composter, along with its supporting ancilliaries, into one of our prime mover (heavy transport vehicles). This will be ideal for events that last more than one day, meaning food and other degradable waste can be disposed of immediately, instead of either being stored for transport back to our base, or disposed of into landfill.
More details can be found at National Compost Awareness Week.
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Composting has become a popular means of recycling organic materials so that they can be used in beneficial ways instead of adding them to a landfill. In addition to being a great way to participate in recycling efforts, composting is also a great way to generate rich organic materials that can be added to soil [...]
In questo periodo di emergenza rifiuti ecco una proposta interessante da realizzare in casa per smaltire autonomamente una parte di questi. Si tratta del compostaggio domestico.In natura, come sappiamo, tutte le sostanze organiche di scarto (foglie, rami, animali morti ecc.) non vanno perse ma vengono trasformate, grazie ad organismi viventi, diventando materiale fertile per il terreno. Questo processo, detto compostaggio, può essere controllato e accelerato dall'uomo ottenendo diversi vantaggi. Infatti, creando il compost si diminuisce la quantità di rifiuti da smaltire e quindi di sostanze inquinanti (come il percolato) e si garantisce la fertilità del suolo in modo naturale, senza ricorrere a concimi chimici.Naturalmente non si può utilizzare qualsiasi tipo di rifiuto per fare il co
If you have been gardening for very long, and especially if you are an organic gardener, you know one of the best mulches or soil amendments that you can add to your garden is natural compost. One particularly good kind of compost is created in worm bin where red worms are added to a [...]
One of the major costs when delving into the fun filled hobby or profession of organic gardening is the cost of maintaining the proper levels of nutrients in your soil each year that you grow your food. Healthy organic vegetables are a mainstay with many people and those obsessed with good health will often [...]
Everyone is talking about environmentally friendly methods of fighting weeds. It would seem as in many other fields, prevention is the best medicine. Established stands of turf that are thin or reedy are ripe for infestation by windblown weed seed and spore. Improved turf density and soil quality are the lawn’s best defense against encroachers.So as I hear it step one is to aerate. Well, we can do that. We have a number of options for aeration from the manual aerator called the Coring Type Hand Aerator for very small areas to the motorized Lesco Split Drive Drum Type Aerator.The next step is to over seed or top dress; mixing light soil, seed and fertilizer and spreading it over the lawn. Again we have a number of options available for this procedure. We have the people powered, push unit
My garden maintenance area is finally well under way. After years of moving temporary compost bins around as each section of the garden was landscaped they have now taken up their final residence behind the kid's cubby house.
This is one of only two sections left that still need to landscaped. This area will eventually cater for our vegetables and aquaponics setup but will most likely be the last area completed. We're still researching the whole backyard aquaponics deal and are noticing many others are starting to take it up - so we can learn from their successes and mistakes.
This maintenance area will be kept out of view by the kid's cubby and I plan to use the roof from their play house as a water catchment zone for some rain barrels. These barrels will hopefully store enough water to keep the compost moist enough to breakdown quickly. And, to save space they will sit just above the compost heaps on a specially-made platform.
The other area left to be landscaped is this o
A home composting appliance that recycles food and paper waste into rich, organic compost fertilizer without any smell or mess. This computer-controlled machine is fully automatic and can be used right where waste is generated. NatureMill, which was developed by Russ Cohn, from San Francisco CA, is small enough to sit in the corner of a kitchen, utility room, garage or shed.
By: James EllisonOrganic gardeners all know compost is fantastic stuff. But now, there's something even better and that's compost tea. If you start with a good compost you'll have a versatile elixir for all your garden needs. Compost tea helps prevent foliage diseases and at the same time increase the nutrients to the plant and shutdown the toxins hurting the plants. It will improve the taste/flavor of your vegetables. So why not give this tea a try either by buying it or brewing it yourself. You won't believe the results!Four ways that good bacteria work:Help compete for the nutrientsDine on the bad varmitsHelp produce antibiotics to use against the varmits.They shove the bad varmits out.Compost tea that is correctly brewed has a wealth of microorganisms that will benefit your plants' growth and health as well as the soil that they live in. Compost tea can be considered yogurt for the soil. The microorganisms living there are both good and bad. What the tea does is make sure the
Makes YOUR Place Into a Real Garden of Eden"What's the Ultimate Health Giving Secret of Plant Feeding?The One That Almost Every Professional Ag and Garden Advisor on The Planet Has About as Much Clue as.........A Lab Rat Has About Quantum Mechanics!"If you want to discover for the very first time how to feed your plants as Nature really intended. And do it without bins, tumblers, odor or TURNING ... then this is going to be the most exciting message you ever read. Here's why: As a child our family were almost self sufficient in fruit and vegetables and I was brought up growing and harvesting all kinds of stuff. I swore when I left home that I would never ever touch a spade or pick another bean for the rest of my life. I'm sure you've had similar feelings about
Once you've made all that beautiful compost, the next challenge is deciding what to do with it all.
You could dig some into an impoverished garden bed as soil improver, mulch your plants and even turn it back into potting mix or garden soil.
Yet, as the ultimate gardening resource compost isn't just limited to these options. In fact as a fertiliser it rates almost as high as worm castings. And depending on whose opinion you seek, it may even be better. So while most gardeners have come to appreciate 'worm wee' as a bona fide organic liquid fertiliser, there are still a few that need convincing that compost tea is just as good.
In fact, using your compost as a tea rather than applying it straight to your garden beds will actually make it far more efficient in boosting your plants growth. As a liquid, compost tea will cover nearly 3-4 times the area that normal compost alone could achieve and also prepare your plants to better source their own nutrients from the soil.
How do y
Air is one of the three essential requirements needed by the decomposer organisms in your compost pile.Because air penetrates only the first few inches of the pile, it needs help to reach the composting pile's center. Therefore if you suddenly get that nasty rotten egg smell around the compost, it means that anaerobic bacteria are moving in, and it's time to give your composting pile more air.In hot composting, plenty of air is essential to develop the high temperatures needed to kill harmful bacteria and speed the process of decomposition. Here are a few ways you can add air to your compost pile:1. Turning: The most effective method of introducing air is to turn the pile with a garden fork. Lift the material from the top and sides, toss it into the more active center of the new pile; then add the partially decomposed center to the outside. In other words, take the composting material from the outside and the top of your pile and exchange it with the composting material in the middle
Decomposer organisms work best with as varied a diet as you feed them. The ingredients are all around us - almost anything that once lived is a candidate for the compost, so try for lots of variety to get a good mix of textures and plant nutrients.In composting jargon, woody materials (such as autumn leaves, paper, peat moss, sawdust, cornstalks, hay and straw, etc)that are high in carbon are called "brown" ingredients.Materials (such as garden refuse, manure, tea and coffee grounds, feathers, hair, and food scraps) that are high in nitrogen are called "green" ingredients.Some materials can actually be both: for example, fresh grass clippings are "green"; however, dried grass is "brown".For successful results, you can use the simple rule that compost needs to be about half "brown" and half "green" by weight. Don't bother to weigh your ingredients, though -- an estimate is fine.Composting soon becomes a matter of instinct, like the cook who bakes without a recipe. If the pile doesn't
I got this brilliant Idea about making your own compost after checking out Gaiam. They had some cool Composting Bins and I thought I would give it a try. You can basically take your Vegetable Scraps, Eggshells, Coffee grounds, and mix it up with some grass clipping and paper and make nutrient rich soil for [...]
The picture shows the difference between having AACT sprayed on and not.If you've never heard of it then it's time to start checking it out.Here's a great testimonial I found on a Yahoo forum:"I came in from applying ACT to a wheat crop just before dark. My wife was out mowing the lawns. When she finishes up she walks over to where I was rinsing out the sprayer and asks "Why does my lawn look so green and healthy? Response "ACT, of course."We haven't done anything different this year than any other. We have had roughly the same amount of rain as average. I have been applying ACT to the lawn about every 10 days or so since the first part of May.It seems to have
It’s all over the blogs, but if you missed the news, Redfins real estate porn property review blog Sweet Digs finally gets the hammer blow for “advertising other brokerages listings”.
It was always going to happen. Greg, Kevin and Inman have covered it well enough, so I’ll skip the rehash.
Anyway… here’s my thought on a new potential danger area for agents reviewing homes on their blogs…
Unlike print advertising which turns into landfill within a couple of weeks of printing, your search engine optimized blog post is FOREVER. Simple dating of the blog post may not be regarded as enough of disclaimer for errors that will occur over time. Your blog is not to be confused with an archive at Town Hall, or the records room at a newspaper where by definition everyone understands “I’m looking at very old stuff”.
Blog posts stay indexed in the search engines forever. So what happens when a house sells and your p
Now this sure would look a lot better sitting on my counter than my ugly milk carton I use for collecting compost scraps! Great idea and unique design. Find this pottery compost crock at LakeBay Pottery.
Sure. Anyone can make compost. But, can they really make it?
Compost isn't the hardest thing in the world to create - it's just a matter of mixing a whole heap of dead organic matter and leaving it to its own devices. A few weeks to rest, then turning it over every few days and Voila! you have compost.
Six weeks ago I set out to journal the process of making my own compost. From the start, through each turn and then the final product. I didn't want to bore you with all the photos so I limited it to just the ones you needed to see.
Here's how I make compost and what I use it for...
After more than 1.700 songs released and 13 years in the business, German independent imprint Compost Records celebrates its 250th release with the second installment of "Freshly Composted" compilation.
Titled "Freshly Composted Vol. 2," the compilation showcases an extensive survey of the most important releases on Compost from the past year including an exclusive forecast to the new Ben Mono album which is going to be released in early spring. Besides Ben's sneak preview there are six more tracks which were previously only available on 12" vinyl, featuring remixes by Carl Craig, Moodymann, Todd Terje, Robag Wruhme, and others.
Just like the first Freshly Composted compilation, Vol. 2 leaves behind stylistic boundaries and offers a diversified mixture of disco, house, techno, soul, jazz, a little bit of pop and cosmic.Continue reading "Compost Records celebrates with Freshly Composted Vol. 2" >
Jesús E. Matheus L.11 Dpto. de Ciencias Agrarias, Núcleo Universitario Rafael Rangel. Universidad de Los Andes. Trujillo. Venezuela e-mail: jmatheusl@ula.ve Resumen Se evaluó agronómicamente un compost elaborado con desechos sólidos de la industria azucarera (biofertilizante La Pastora) como alternativa para restaurar la fertilidad de un suelo degradado y suplir los requerimientos nutricionales del cultivo de maíz (híbrido Himeca 2000). La experiencia se realizó...
- German downtempo emporium Compost Records will celebrate its 250th release with a special label compilation, Freshly Composted Vol. 2, which is set for release on February 16, 2007. The compilation...
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Great video about a group called MUD that goes around on bikes collecting used coffee grounds. They turn it into compost! Sooooo green! » original news linton via hugg.com
Perhaps you have heard the age old adage that you can’t get anything for free. This is true for most things in life with the exception of Irma composting or what many call worm composting. Basically, worms will take your organic garbage and transform it almost magically into a type of compost that [...]
