tag: compost

Build An Outdoor Bokashi & Worm Composting Bin

This "casket-style" container produces compost below ground, and is a great container for outdoor worm composting.

Frustrated Spring Gardeners - Seize the Moment! Try Patch Gardening!

This innovative gardening style - I occasionally come up with a good idea - is perfect for someone like me with limited energy and heat sensitivity.  I call it "Patch Gardening" and you can...

Free Fertilizers Within Reach

Banana peels, used coffee grounds, and eggshell tea make for some free fertilizers that plants really love.

QUESTION: Parrot Poop in the Compost Pile?

Has anyone had experience with this?  I have 5 parrots of varying sizes, and must change the paper in the bottoms of their cages daily.  The poop is mixed with nuts, seeds, veggies that...

QUESTION: Guinea Pig Poop as Garden Fertilizer?

Hello fellow gardeners!  We all know how wonderful rabbit manure can be, but how about guinea pig poop?  My kids are getting a guinea pig for Christmas, and it's diet is essentially the...

Start Composting, Bokashi Style

In this video, I show you a way to set up and maintain a compost system using the Bokashi method.

The Victory Garden Composter - Part 2

With the new compost bin in place, it was time to harvest my "black gold".

All About Compost

Composting turns kitchen and yard scraps into a marvelous soil amendment, and you don't have to do much to accomplish this stunning transformation. Follow the links to learn all about the benefits of composting, composting systems, building a compost bin, managing your compost, compost tea, and worm composting.

The Victory Garden Composter

A compost bin is simply essential in your garden. This two-bin design is simple, efficient, and won't break your budget to make.

Rabbits at last..at least for a while!

Meet Candy and Lala!  These 2 dutch bunny beauties belong to my kids' elementary school, but they will be taking their summer vacation at our house, (to give the science teacher a...

Video: Composting Made Easy

Jodie Colon, Compost Educator at Bronx Green-Up, shows you how to mix dead, dry leaves and stems, fresh moist green plant materials, and food scraps in a compost heap.

Video: Getting Started in Worm Composting

Here's how to turn your kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich compost.

Bring on the Bokashi!! Part One

This method of intensive composting has advantages over traditional composting.

Rabbit Manure in the Garden

Anyone who comes within a few yards of my garden is forced to discuss rabbit poop and its many gardening benefits - whether they want to or not. I'm determined to spread the bunny-gospel.

Start Your Compost Pile This Winter

Those gardeners in gentler climates will have things going a little bit faster (and no, it's not unfair because you snow people get tulips).

QUESTION: Using a compost tumbler in cold weather

Hey fellow gardeners!  I am reading up on composting a lot lately, and have a couple of questions for those of you who are experts!

Composting in Winter

My compost pile is far from my house. Besides, it's busy working, getting itself ready to use next spring. So rather than add to it all winter, or worse, not compost at all (impossible!), I use...

Uses for Fallen Leaves in the Garden

Don't put your fallen leaves on the curb. Read my article and find 3 ways to use fallen leaves in your garden.

Leaf Mold as a Soil Conditioner

Leaf mold by itself is pretty close to pure humus and like compost, smells like the forest floor. Probably because it is the forest floor.

Grasscycle, Compost, and Mulch with Grass Clippings

I think the average homeowner over looks the many joys of grass clippings. This stuff is a valuable resource with all the versatility of duct tape.

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• Simply Natural Compost Bin $99.95

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