Container Gardening: Container Herb Garden
Container gardening is a great way to grow plants, vegetables and herbs without needing a lot of space. Herbs do especially well and can be grown right outside your kitchen door. In this video, you’ll learn how to use an old farmer’s market basket to make a great container garden. Fill it with your favorite herbs and your cooking will be full of flavor all summer long.
Duration : 0:6:7
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.
How to Raise Organic Vegetables : Designing an Organic Garden
Get tips on designing an organic garden, and what types of vegetables, spices and other plants to grow, in this free organic gardening video lesson for beginners.
Expert: Gale Gassiot
Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”
Duration : 0:3:29
Composting Tips for your garden
Learn how to make compost for your garden. Stick around for the bloopers.
Duration : 0:7:19
How to Raise Organic Vegetables : Organic Composting Tips
Compost can help the plants in your organic garden thrive. Learn how to make and use organic compost in your garden, with tips on what type of yard and kitchen scraps to put into your compost pile, in this free gardening video lesson.
Duration : 0:1:17
Gardening Tips & Tricks : How Often Should I Empty My Compost Bin?
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
As the Worm Turns – Plantic Gets Down to Earth
Watch as a Plantic tray breaks down in a worm farm.
Plantic Technologies Limited is an international innovator in bioplastics. Unlike other providers, whose primary material is developed in a refinery, Plantic’s is grown in a field.
Plantic has developed a biodegradable, organic alternative to conventional plastics based on high amylose corn starch – simple corn – which is not genetically modified.
From food and beverage packaging to medical, automotive and aerospace applications, there is virtually no industry that will not soon be affected and enhanced by this new technology.
www.plantic.com.au
Duration : 0:1:9
Compost Part 2–The Turn
Part 2 The proper way to turn your compost pile and uses for compost in the garden
Duration : 0:4:41
How to Prune & Care for Trees & Shrubs : How to Create Compost for your Home Garden
Learn about creating a compost for your home garden in this free gardening video.
Duration : 0:2:44
Fall Garden Harvest Woot
sara picks some corn and thanks to Winters Shadow for the musical talent
Duration : 0:8:24