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How to Create & Manage an Organic Garden : Using Organic Hydroponic Nutrients

Kitchen Compost — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:04:06 +0000

Learn how to use organic hydroponic nutrients for your garden’s benefit in this free educational video series.

Expert: Steve
Contact: www.myspace.com/solorganics_hydroponics
Bio: Steve is the owner of Sol Organics and Hydroponics in San Antonio, Texas.
Filmmaker: julio costilla

Duration : 0:2:1

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How to Make a Worm Compost Bin – Cheap and Easy

Kitchen Compost — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:12:04 +0000

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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.

Duration : 0:4:2

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Green gardening guide – part one

Kitchen Compost — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:24:05 +0000

In the UK, we each spend an average £200 each year on our gardens.

That’s a whole lotta cash that could be used to make our green spaces green in the eco-friendly sense – by growing plants to organic standards, using compost instead of chemical fertiliser and deploying natural pest controls instead of going crazy with pesticides.

To learn the how, we took a trip to Garden Organic Ryton to meet environmentalist, writer, CAT staffer and organic gardener, Allan Shepherd.
This is part one of a two part series. For part two, head to youtube.com/newconsumer

Duration : 0:6:36

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How to Create & Manage an Organic Garden : Starting an Indoor Organic Garden

Kitchen Compost — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:20:04 +0000

Indoor organic gardens can be a great hobby. Learn more in this free educational video series.

Expert: Steve
Contact: www.myspace.com/solorganics_hydroponics
Bio: Steve is the owner of Sol Organics and Hydroponics in San Antonio, Texas.
Filmmaker: julio costilla

Duration : 0:2:25

In Depth Guide to Home Composting (Part 3 of 3)

Kitchen Compost — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:22:06 +0000

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Duration : 0:4:10

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In Depth Guide to Home Composting (Part 1 of 3)

Kitchen Compost — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:56:02 +0000

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Duration : 0:7:39

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In Depth Guide to Home Composting (Part 2 of 3)

Kitchen Compost — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:28:04 +0000

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Jora Big Pig Compost Maker-home organic gardening easy on you and the environment

Kitchen Compost — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:04:18 +0000

http://stores.vitality4life.com.au/Home_Composting/ Organic home gardening made easy with this environmentally friendly rotating heat-generating and insulated composter. Convenient and simple to create living soil nutrients all year round. Enjoy seeing the transformation of your kitchen waste into ecologically sustainable nutritious compost you can use to fertilise lawns, pot plants, vegetable gardens and flower beds. This Swedish designed quality home composting unit is manufactured to …

Duration : 0:2:1

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Beginners Guide to Composting!

Kitchen Compost — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:13:59 +0000

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Duration : 0:1:26

Gardening Tips & Tricks : How Often Should I Empty My Compost Bin?

Kitchen Compost — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:28:06 +0000

A compost bin can be emptied whenever the compost has turned to a soil-like consistency, which occurs when the pile has enough air and moisture to break down its contents. Learn about keeping a compost heap with plant tips from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening.

Duration : 0:2:44

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