Make Compost Easy with the Exaco Composter
Tucked away in a corner of the garden with its discreet shape and color, the composter performs its useful task: composting vegetable, fruit and garden waste. The sun’s heat is absorbed thanks to the dark color. The air slots ensure enough ventilation to optimize the composting process. With the composter, recycling does indeed start in your own garden!
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Worm Garden and Organic Compost: What Benefits Worm Gardening Can Give and to Whom?
http://howtowormfarming.com Worm Garden and Organic Compost: What Benefits Worm Gardening Can Give and to Whom? Get to know what are the benefits of having a worm garden around.
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Vegetable Garden — July Field Trip
Vegetable Garden — The July vegetable garden update. Visit The Bayou Gardener in South Louisiana at http://www.thebayougardener.com
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2009 Garden Vlog 5, Total Garden Overview
Kinda long but I DO cover a LOT of territory with this video. And BTW if you’re wondering why I’ll be moving the big pile of partially decomposed wood chips to my lower garden eventually, it’s because I’ll mostly be moving my entire garden down there next season because the soil is MUCH better there.
It’s kinda odd. I’ve previously been uploading 720 x 480 WMV files and they’ve been filling the screen. This time I upped a 720 x 480 MP4 file and it didn’t fill the screen.
GRRRR
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Getting started on the veggie garden! Raised beds!
First video of the spring. I’m making raised beds for the garden and adding homemade compost. Last year was a bad season from lack of nitrogen. Let’s see if adding a ton of compost changes that.
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Organic Veggie garden part 2. Everything’s growing!!!
Raised beds are built. Compost is mixed into the soil. Seeds and seedlings are planted. Never any chemicals or artificial additives. Comment or email me if you have a garden!
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Organic Gardening Magazine: Your First Garden Bed
Scott Meyer, Editor of Organic Gardening Magazine, gives you step-by-step instructions for creating a new garden bed where grass is currently growing.
For more information visit www.organicgardening.com
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Farming worms for fish food in ponds?
I am particularly interested on the utilization of composting worm as fish food in ponds, cages, aquaria and pens. Can you feed these worms to aquatic organisms like fishes?
They make great fish food. I raised worm at one time for my own use.The biggest mistake I made when first starting off was I didn’t put holes in the bottom of the trough I was raising them in.One day we got a 3in. rain and all of my worms washed out of the container.They need loose loam soil to live in.I fed them cornmeal and old coffee ground.Good Luck.
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Creating Your Own Compost Bin
Do you want to make sure that your garden thrives? Do you hate the idea of using chemical fertilizers? Do you like the all natural way of doing things? You may just find that the natural choice will be the better one. Have you thought of doing composting? Great, because there are many options that will be open to you. If you are going to get started with composing, know that it is a very easy process. You are going to have to think about how rich compost will be able to keep your garden green and growing by leaps and bounds. I remember when my grandmother always had a compost pile. We would even help her by throwing things into her compost heap. A good way to learn about the art of composting would be to visit your library or even go on the Internet. There is lots of valuable information in these two places. It takes very little to make a compost pile. So if you are looking to have to make a large investment, relax! There is very little money involved with making a compost pile.
First, select an area of your lawn or your garden. While putting your compost on in a bit can be more tidy and add a cleaner look to your lawn, you’ll find that you can also use some simple wire fencing to keep your compost in. If you wish, you can also just make it into a heap in the corner of your yard. Consider the fact that you need both green and brown elements to make up a good compost heap. Green compost materials will include things like grass clippings and old annuals, while brown debris includes things like dry leaves; the former is high in nitrogen while the later are high in carbon. To make sure that your compost is healthy, keep things like diseased plants, oils, and and any plants that have had herbicides used on them away from it.
If you want to speed up the breakdown so that you will quickly have fertile compost for your garden, you should have two parts of brown materials to one part of green materials. If you have a pitchfork or even a hoe, begin layering the material into the heap or bin in this way. In order to have a good pile that will heat up fast and will end up breaking down the materials more effectively, work with a compost pile that measures approximately three cubic feet. When this heap is in place, you may wish to throw a shovelful of garden soil or finished compost to act as a starter.
Routinely touch your compost to make sure that it is damp enough. A compost heap with a good water content will feel a lot like a damp sponge, not a dripping wet one. If the compost heap is too wet, you’ll find that it will delay the important break down and too little water will slow down the rate of decomposition. You may find that depending on your climate, you might need to build a roof for your compost or that you might need to water it!
At least once a week, go out and turn your compost. This will allow the decomposition to keep going and it will prevent material from getting so compacted that you are going to have a problem with decomposition. Just grab a shovel and turn it. It will only take a few minutes. If you have the proper type of bin, you can simply spin it!
You want to weigh all of the pros and cons and, in the end, you will see how compost will help your garden. There are many things that a compost pile can do for you, so you will want to get started right away.