Showing posts with label Compost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Compost. Show all posts

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Urban Compost Tumbler Uct-7

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Produce your own all natural black gold for your vegetables, flower, herbs and practically everything else that grows out of the ground with the Urban Compost Tumbler. Turn yard, garden and kitchen refuse into high quality compost in a unit that is simple, clean, and safe. 7.5 Cubic Feet

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

What To Do With A Compost Bin In The Winter

www.cleanairgardening.com Composting in the winter can be difficult if temperatures get too low and your compost pile or bin seems to stop creating compost. Keep adding to your bin or pile, and things will start back up in warmer weather.

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Should I build a compost bin or buy one?

compostinstructions.com There are advantages to buying and building a compost bin. Often times, people are curious as to which is a better fit. This video weighs in on these options, and will help you choose which option is best for you.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Making Compost Tea in a 5 gallon pail

How to Make Compost Tea by award winning garden author Doug Green www.simplegiftsfarm.com there are great many myths running around the net about compost and making compost tea and part of what I would like to do is to show you the action and the method of getting compost tea started. The unfortunate reality is that compost tea is not the be-all and end-all or magic bullet for correcting all garden mistakes. It may be an excellent way to increase soil microorganisms and jumpstart your gardens soil health. I've used compost tea for many years now based on their recommendations of old garden books and now, modern research. To be honest, I don't know whether it's making my garden better but it makes me feel better to think that I am doing something positive out there. In other words, I have no scientific, double blind testing, or other evaluation mechanisms. I'm going on what I think is happening and what works for me. The theory is that by making compost tea you will produce billions of microorganisms, far more than can be produced in easily available amounts of compost. In other words eighth few gallons of compost tea will provide adequate amounts of microorganisms for large acreages where it would take huge amounts of actual compost to provide the same number of microorganisms. Our compost tea in this video is being made with a KIS brewer system, 4.5 gallons of water, a bit of citric acid (vitamin C) , molasses, sugar and a half a pot of worm compost. I'll let it brew for ...

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Earth Machine Compost Bin

Click here for more details: www.amazon.com Earth Machine Compost Bin Made from recycled plastic. Easy snap together assembly. Vertical and horizontal columnar ventilation.

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

How to Make Compost - Are Garden Shredders Expensive Boys' Toys Or Useful Kits?

!±8± How to Make Compost - Are Garden Shredders Expensive Boys' Toys Or Useful Kits?

The garden shredder can help you make compost if:

1. You're drowning in woody prunings
2. You want to make more compost NOW
3. You are a keen mulcher or have woodchip paths to renew

Let's start with drowning. You have a small garden and nowhere to put all the shrubby prunings. Because your garden is small you have to keep pruning or will never see the light of day. Shredding reduces the bulk enormously. Then it can fit into a small-ish compost bin and start earning its keep.

For number two, you want to make more compost and NOW, you probably grow some veg (or have roses that think they're teenage boys - hungeree). By reducing the size of the woody materials, shredders increase the surface area available to decomposing microbes. They can attack it from every side and hey presto compost is made. Whereas if you had added rose prunings to the compost directly they would probably still be there when all your other stuff had broken down into lovely crumbly compost.

This isn't necessarily a problem however as it can be easily sieved out and returned to the pile for another year. If there are a lot of them it makes sense to make them all smaller when putting it in. For patient composters who can wait as long as two years before using their compost it's not a problem but the alternative is to spend ages cutting up twiggy stuff before it goes in. I'll bet you'd rather do other garden jobs. The shredder comes to the rescue and earns its salt.

Finally you may live somewhere hot (lucky devil) and drought is a problem (OK we do tend to forget why our land is green and pleasant). Mulching after rain keeps the water from evaporating too quickly and ultimately feeds the soil. Wood chips might be useful for paths or play surfaces. Chippers are more suited to the kind of woodchips required for paths and playground. Similar to shredders they deal with bigger chunks of wood, branches rather than twigs.

The drawbacks are the initial financial outlay they start at around £150/0 and then the running cost of the energy needed to fuel it. There are petrol and electric versions available. For electric models you'll need a source in the garden (or a long enough extension lead) but electric or petrol, the noise! Nature is a whole lot quieter. A word of caution, be careful about getting soil or stones in the shredder as it quickly blunts the blade. Replacement blades can be bought but that's another expense.

If you like machines and are keen to make compost as quickly as possible then a shredder is a useful addition to your garden practice but if you have a little patience there are millions of small and even microscopic organisms ready to do the job for you. By shredding you give them an 'in' so they can get to work more quickly but they will get there in the end without you lifting a finger!

Check out a website like http://reviewcentre.com for reviews before choosing a shredder or find out more about getting nature to do your work - see link below.


How to Make Compost - Are Garden Shredders Expensive Boys' Toys Or Useful Kits?

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