Make Garden Compost out of your waste – Recycle your Most Plentiful Organic Resource

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how you can make garden compost out of your most plentiful organic resource. He visits a friends place to learn about this way of composting.

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Posted on May 1st, 2010 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 25 Comments »

2010 garden vlog24 taking the compost out!HD

*Starting a new outdoor compost pile the easy and trouble free way!

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Posted on April 28th, 2010 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 25 Comments »

Compost Making – How to Make Compost

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The Worlds Best Compost gives such practical information on how to prepare the best compost for your plants. It will totally change your thoughts on composting. It works from the key foundations of making your soil healthy to yielding healthy, delicious and chemical free plants. There is a recipe for making “TRUE HUMUS”. The shortest time to finish making it, is three months, so give yourself some time.

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Posted on February 9th, 2010 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | No Comments »

Gardening Rhythms: Composting using a Black Soldier Fly

Compost yard and kitchen scraps using the Black Soldier Fly. The fly never appears. It’s first eaten before it flies.

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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | No Comments »

The Secrets Behind A Great Compost Program

Composting is a way of getting in touch with nature. Stay away from the chemically enhanced fertilizers at the stores. You can make your own fertilizer through a process known as composting. In the process you will probable have the opportunity to get down on your knees and get your hands a dirty, and nothing is dirtier than compost.

Compost is the process where biodegradable materials are turned into a soil like substance. The material is mixed with air, water, nitrogen in the proper proportions. The result is a compost material that will serve as a soil conditioner, mulch, and fertilizers. It will feed your garden soil the microorganism that plants need to grow strong and healthy.

When starting a compost program it is best to find a spot close to your garden, but some where concealed from plain site. When you show people your beautiful garden you do not want the first thing they see to be your compost heap. They are practical but not very pretty.

After you decide on a suitable area you will start the pile with green and brown organic materials. Green materials are high in nitrogen while the brown material contain lots of carbon. These two elements form the basic foundation of a compost pile.

A properly formed compost pile will not give off any odors. When the ratio of green and brown materials are correct the pile will not emit any odors. Compost should have an earthy smell and not that of rotting material. If the latter is present then something may be in the pile that should not be there or the ratio of green and brown material is off.

Adding some finished compost to the mix helps to kick start the composting program. This will help start the microbial activities in a compost pile.

Make sure that the pile is moist. Keeping the compost pile damp will help to quicken the breakdown of the organic materials. Add water to the pile it should be damp like a sponge

Producing compost is really a pretty simple matter. It just takes a little know how and a fair amount of time.

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Posted on July 14th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | No Comments »

How to Compost : When a Compost Heap is Ready

Learn when compost heaps or compost bins are ready depending on the temperature and climate and learn about using mulch in this free gardening video.

Expert: Yolanda Vanveen
Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com
Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash.

Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by admin and filed under garden composter | 2 Comments »

Basic Gardening Tips : How to Build a Compost Pile

Learn how to start and maintain a garden in this free gardening video.

Expert: Tia Pinney
Contact: www.massaudubon.org
Bio: Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubons Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

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Posted on June 6th, 2009 by admin and filed under garden composter | 12 Comments »

How to Make a Worm Compost Bin – Cheap and Easy

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Obtain a worm bin.

* These can be purchased from many online vendors or your local gardening or farm supply store.
* You can build your own. Use rubber storage totes, galvanized tubs, wood, or plastic.

Material: Rubber is cheap, easy to use and durable. Galvanized tubs are somewhat costly but will last forever. Wood will eventually be eaten, and plastic cracks easily, but either will do in a pinch.

Drilling holes to ventilate a rubber tub.

Ventilation: Your bin should be well-ventilated, with several 1/8 inch (3mm) holes 4 inches (100mm) from the bottom (otherwise the worms will stay at the bottom of the bin and you may drown your worms). For example, you can build a worm bin out of a large plastic tub with several dozen small holes drilled out on the bottom and sides.
o Size: The larger you make the container, the more worms it can sustain. Estimate 1 pound (0.45kg) of worms (1,200) for every square foot of surface area. The maximum productive depth for your bin is 24 inches (61cm) deep because composting worms will not go further down than that.
o Cover: The bin should have a cover to prevent light from getting in and to prevent the compost from drying out. Choose or make a lid that can be removed if your compost is too wet. Use a canvas tarp, doubled over and bungee-corded on, or kept in place with wood. Burlap sacks also work well, and can be watered directly.

* Use 4 old car tires: To make a four-tire wormery, create a base from old bricks or flagstones (must be flat and with as few cracks as possible). Place a layer of heavy newspaper on top of the bricks. Stuff four old tires with newspapers. Pile the tires on top of each other, with the first tire on the Sunday newspaper. Put some scrunched up paper or cardboard in the bottom to soak up any excess liquid. Fill the tire wormery with organic material (semi-composted is best). Add the composting worms (tiger or brandling species are best). Use a piece of board weighed down with bricks as a lid. The lid must be big enough to stop rain getting in. Harvest a tire’s worth of fertilizer roughly every 8 weeks (during warm months).

Shredded newspaper for worm bedding.
Prepare the box for worms. Fill your bin with thin strips of unbleached corrugated cardboard or shredded newspaper, straw, dry grass, or some similar material. This provides a source of fiber to the worms and keeps the bin well-ventilated. Sprinkle a handful of dirt on top, and thoroughly moisten. Allow the water to soak in for at least a day before adding worms. You can also use Canadian peat moss, which is more expensive but yields a loamier vermicompost.

Worms arrive.

Get worms. There are several varieties of worms that that are bred and sold commercially for vermicomposting; just digging up earthworms from your backyard is not recommended. The Internet or local gardening club is your best bet for finding a worm vendor near you. The worms most often used, Eisenia foetida (Red Wigglers), are about 4 inches long, mainly red along the body with a yellow tail. Another variety to consider are Eisenia hortensis, known as “European Night crawlers.” They do not reproduce quite as fast as the red wigglers, but grow to be larger, eat courser paper and cardboard better, and seem to be heartier. They are also better fishing worms when they do reach full size. However, with any non-native species, it is important not to allow them to reach the wild. Their voracious appetites and reproductive rates (especially among the red wigglers) have been known to upset the delicate balance of the hardwood forests by consuming the leaf litter too quickly. This event leaves too little leaf letter to slowly incubate the hard shelled nuts and leads to excessive erosion as well as negatively affecting the pH of the soil. So, do your best to keep them confined!

Feed your worms fruit and vegetable scraps and refresh the bedding as necessary.

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Posted on May 26th, 2009 by admin and filed under worm compost | 3 Comments »

How to build a compost bin

Building a composter supervised by Hobbs the cat! Hobbs shows how to build a compost tumbler that recycles kitchen and garden waste. Visit http://compostwizzard.co.uk

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Posted on May 24th, 2009 by admin and filed under garden composter | 1 Comment »

Setting Up A Worm Bin – Part 3

http://www.vermiculturenorthwest.com Adding your first worms to the worm bin.

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Posted on May 19th, 2009 by admin and filed under worm compost bin | 4 Comments »
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