How to Compost : Learn Organic Garden Composting Online : How to Quickly Start a Compost Pile

Want to start an organic compost pile quickly? An expert shares a home-made recipe that you can use to make your compost pile quickly break down in this free organic gardening video.

Expert: Gale Gassiot
Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”

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How to make compost – Making your own compost

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*http://www.howdini.com/howdini-video-7560688.html How to compost How to make compost How does your garden grow? A lot better if the soil is enriched with compost from your own compost pile. Scott Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening magazine, shows how to make and use compost. Keywords: how to compost how to make compost making compost making a compost pile

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How to Compost : Learn Organic Garden Composting Online : How to Use Compost in Your Garden

Get tips for using your own homemade organic compost in your garden, plus learn how compost can help your plants and flowers thrive, in this free organic gardening video.

Expert: Gale Gassiot
Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”

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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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How to Compost : Learn Organic Garden Composting Online : How to Plant with Compost

Using compost in your garden can make your flowers and plants thrive! Get tips on planting with compost and mixing compost with soil in your garden in this free organic composting video.

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Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”

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Kitchen Composter

If you care about the environment you will be in favor of the composting process. The program focuses on giving back to the land what it has given you. It is about a cycle that things go through in order to grow.

My friends refer to me as the kitchen composter. When they look into a pile of trash all they see is garbage, but I see things that can become a part of nature.

That’s how your life is going to be if you are in touch with nature. The organic residue that you collect when you gather different materials from the land that is converted into something black,fragrant, and crumbly is what will be the compost. The idea here is to arrange the gathered items so the soil bacteria and fungi can survive and also multiply as they all break down. The bacteria act as the converters of all the raw materials so that they must be in a workable environment with proper air, food, and moisture.

You do not have to be a pro a start a kitchen composter program. All you have to have is a big heart for nature and you are all set. The thing you need to remember is that you are doing the environment a great favor by being involved in such a process.

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How to Compost : Learn Organic Garden Composting Online : How to Tell when Compost is Ready

How do you know when your organic compost in your compost bin is ready to be used as fertilizer for plants in your garden? Find out in this free

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How to Compost : Learn Organic Garden Composting Online : How to Add Carbon Matter to Compost

When adding yard or kitchen scraps to your compost pile, make sure it is broken down into small pieces. Learn more about what organic materials you can add

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Kitchen Composter

After you have started a Kitchen Composter program it will take a bit of work and a few months turning the pile every now and then to aerate it. The pile should also be kept moist, think of a damp sponge.

You will know the right time to harvest the compost when you no longer recognize the original materials that you used to make the pile. The finished compost should look more humus-like, it is dark, loose, and smells earthy.

When you harvest the compost from your pile, it would be best to spread it out and expose it to the air. This will further dry the compost and will make

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How to Compost : Learn Organic Garden Composting Online : Correct Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio when Making Organic Garden Compost at Home

Learn the correct carbon to nitrogen ratio and why it’s important in the organic composting process for your garden – free video.

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