Kitchen Compost

Organic Mechanic Compost Tea

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, and Mark Highland, the Organic Mechanic, hang out, talk about soil and whip up a batch of compost tea.

Read Mark Highland’s column, the Last word, at Urban Sustainable Living (www.urbansustainableliving.com. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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Compost Tea

Brewing a batch of aerated worm casting tea. Great for boosting all living systems in the garden and right on plants.

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Global Worming

Vermicomposting! Using worms to compost your kitchen scraps for use in the garden.

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Composting Leaves

What’s falling from the trees this fall should turn up in your garden next year… as nutrient rich soil. Allen Smith reminds us that fall leaves are as good as gold.

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Tips on Composting

Before you bag up your leaves and send them away, you may want to consider recycling them for your garden.

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