What vegetables are good for mushroom compost?
I recently added a garden on the side of my house, it is a raised bed 3" of mushroom compost. It gets alot of sun, some shade in the evening. Alot of my plants have turned white and died, does anyone have any tips or ideas on successfully growing my veggie garden?
You are up with the one task that your garden is consuming necessary amount of sunlight and some shade in the evening, that’s fine enough. The thing on which you must work on is composting. Additional amount of organic matters in your soil will ensure healthy growth of your plants. Avoid using excessive amount of soil as it can be very harmful for your plants and sometimes can be a cause of the death of plants.
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Any ideas on making a compost vegetable broth in the crockpot?
I have a ton of peelings, leaves, leftover veggies in my freezer that I want to throw in a crockpot and see what happens. The websites look pretty gloomy, but I figured why not? I won’t be wasting anything I wasn’t going to throw away anyway. Any ideas of what to flavor it with? Any secret ingredients that will help make it taste better than compost water? Thanks.
I don’t suggest using potato peelings. But you’re basically making a veggie stock. I do that with carrot peelings, parsley leaves, cabbage leaves, etc. It’s great because then you can use it for chicken soup, just noodles, or other. In fact, if you do it on the stove, it only takes about an hour.
Some ingredients to try. Try all or a few
Just salt and pepper
Mrs. Dash Lemon & Herb
1/2 of beer (bud or miller) then drink the other half
few dashes of red wine vinegar
Good luck.
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When adding compost to plants or trees, should the compost be added on top of the soil, or what?
I’m new at composting, so I’d like to know how/where to apply the compost. Should you till the soil? Or shovel out a bit of the soil, aplly compost, then shovel the soil back on top? Or just spread the compost on top of the soil without tilling or shoveling some of it out?
you can add it on top of the soil , under the mulch if you like…. or use it AS mulch…. if you can dig it in without harming the roots of the plants, then do that, too…. but… on top of the soil, good compost will send out for worms… they’ll come and do their work and soon that compost will be below soil surface with just the help of the wormies!!…. if the compost is under the mulch, like if you use bark mulches, then the compost stays moist and the worms can work in peace without those darned robins bothering them!!…. *smile*…
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Which is more effective vermicompost or conventional compost?
Both are great, but I would think you would have more concentrated nutrients in the vermicompost.
Will my compost pile work based on my description?
Right now I have a bucket that im collecting vegetable and fruit scraps in, but we’re planning on putting it in the backyard soon. Will I have compost in time for summer? What can I do to make it compost faster?
You would be better to start a compost heap outside. You can make it from wire (a 3 – 4 ft circle about 3 ft high) or wood (4 posts in a 3 ft square about 3 ft high nail wood up 3 sides leaving the front open), or buy a plastic compost bin.
You can put almost anything on the compost heap except meat or fish. As long as it is in layers. I started mine with a layer of grass cuttings then some kitchen scraps (fruit n veg), then some ripped up newspaper, garden leaves, more grass and so on. Even got some straw to put in it.. Every 3 months I turned it over. That was last year, and it is looking good now. So am leaving that alone for now and starting a new one for next year.
Hope that helps
Beulah
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How can I make compost in my house for my house plants?
I’d like to start a small container in my room to make compost for my plants…which are a tropical and cacti, and one grass-like plant. How can I start this and have it not smell bad? I do not mind a green smell, but not rotting or sewage-like. Thank you.
This web page shows a composting machine and a video of the machine in action. http://www.naturemill.com/ I don’t have this machine or have one in my home but I do have one in the yard. Mostly a good compost should not have any odor to it if it is done right and taken care right. There is just some things you cannot put into a compost or it may make it smell. Some things that are greasy will make a rot smell and some things will make an ammonia smell. But these indoor home machines have to be plugged in as there is a motor in some of them to turn the compost. Some will have a heater in them. Some will have warning lights on them and tell you what you need to add or do not add like if it needs more water or less.
It is a great idea that you are doing and all the power to you for doing it.
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Questions about Vermicompost or Worm Bins?
I have been doing research on this topic for months now and just started my very own. The thing is, can I blend my left over fruits and vegetable skins together and just layer the mess on top or should i just throw them in the way they are? Also, can I just plant my plants in the container that the worms are in? I mean it kind of makes sense right?
You can throw them in the way they are, but they will get composted much faster if they are in smaller pieces.
Worms like it dark, so your worm bins should be covered, so I don’t think growing a plant in the bin will work.
Can I grow plants directly in compost?
I’m planning a rooftop container garden and want to keep the weight of containers low. I want to know if I can grow plants directly in 100% compost without adding any soil or perhaps in high compost to soil ratio (say, 70:30)?
Note, I’m talking about READY compost. Not decaying compost. One that has already gone through the process of decay and is ready to use.
no… plants need more things to grow well than is found in compost…. those things are found in soil…. and fertilizers…. but mostly in soil…. there’s a whole microbial community in soil that helps plants live and grow!…..
to keep the weight low in containers, fill part of the container with something light that will take up a bit of space on the bottom of the container…. a large container, use capped soda bottles or crushed soda cans…. a nylon mesh bad (like for washing lingerie) filled with packing peanuts….. then over that, lay some landscape fabric or several layers of burlap (to keep the soil on TOP) and then fill the rest of the way up with your soil mix…..
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What are these things in my compost that look like avocado pits?
I have a compost that has been pretty damp recently and has some fungus in it. One thing that keeps showing up is these largish round balls. At first I thought someone had thrown an avocado pit in the compost, since it was about the same size (although more of a dirty white color). They’re pretty hard, but I can only assume they’re some kind of fungus. What are they and are they bad?
I would let them be. If they don’t disappear within a month or so, They must be growing, otherwise they would’ve been decomposed.
Might be an insect nest or some kind of egg sac?
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Can anyone plz help me with a project on Vermicompost??? How is it made? A good site with lods of info??
Vermicompost is compost made from the wastes of the creepy crawlers a.k.a. earthworms. If it sounds Greek to you, its concept is simple. The earthworms eat away the dried leaves and twigs collected in a two-level container until they turn it into a black, fine grain-like substance or, in short, compost. For a person without any experience about, we recommend to get some dry leafs form a non resinous tree, put them in a recipient, and fill it with water so the leafs the maximum possible of humidity. Leave the leafs in the water for 24hs and then, thru them in a humid corner in the ground or in some recipient that don’t accumulate water but conserve the humidity. You can add wet paper to this. Taking care of humidity (80%), in a few days it becomes in a perfect food to the worms
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