Installing a simple garden retaining wall
Patti, the Garden Girl, installs a simple retaining wall in her mini city orchard using Garden Soxx. Kip Gardner from http://www.filtrexx.com shows Patti how to use this innovative gardening system.
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Cover Crops and Compost Crops IN Your Garden
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How to make compost – Making your own compost
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How to compost How to make compost
How does your garden grow? A lot better if the soil is enriched with compost from your own compost pile. Scott Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening magazine, shows how to make and use compost.
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Marilyn’s Garden – Composting
The first of a new series of shows, hosted by Marilyn Morris, Marilyn’s Garden focuses on techniques to improve home gardening. In this episode Marilyn will teach you the surprisingly easy gardening tip of composting.
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Using A Chipper Shredder
Working on your backyard to remove any unruly bushes, trees or plants is very hard work! Not only do you have to cut the stuff down, you are also required to then get rid of of it in an environmentally compatible manner too. This is where having a wood chipper or garden shredder will be useful.
These portable, compact devices will break down small sticks and plants into fine pieces so they might be re-used or re-cycled in a variety of different ways. An example, a branch from your old tree could be turned in to wood chippings and then applied as a layer on your flower bedding areas. If you might have a few branches to recycle, it could be broken down to create an area where young people can play safely. Any softer material like plants could be reduced down using a chipper shredder into a finer or coarse mulch and that is then perfect for spreading on to your plants and pots to be used as a organic and totally natural fertilizer. Mix up the reduced plant with some water and leave to compost in a covered storage device and you will produce a perfect, locally produced product to assist your new plants flourish.
Shredders are designed in many shapes and sizes, from smaller portable ones designed for home use only, which use strong nylon wires to chop up the plants you feed into it in to small pieces, all the way through to large towable electric wood chippers and model that are made for industrial chipping and shredding for landscaping companies and gardening workers. In the centre of these items there are wood chippers which are solely designed to break up the waste that is placed into them. They are designed to take sticks and branches of no bigger diameter than 2 inches and they quite happily chip all other garden waste material with no problems at all. Products by Bearcat or Craftsman are perfect for this and will last you for years and years.
A home use leaf shredder is a perfect option for those with bigger gardens that feature non evergreen trees that shed their leaves. Get the leaves into a shredder and they are broken down quickly and easily. The leaves are great for making some compost or making a mulch, and the leaves are quickly and easily disposed of.
You could make it a communal item. Join your neighbors and get a chipper shredder between a group and then share it equally around you all. It seems sensible to jointly own a chipper shredder as it is not needed all of the year.
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.
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How to Make Compost the Easy Way
Making compost is similar to cooking dinner for your family. You need a recipe, the correct ingredients in the right amounts, the correct temperatures and time to let it all simmer. The entre will be a load of sweet smelling, dark brown rich loam that you can feed to your plants with pride.
Composting is the controlled decomposition of organic matter. If left alone, this process can be extremely slow, but by following the directions and by using a compost tumbler, you can speed up the process considerably. The following ingredients are necessary:
Carbon
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Water
However some materials will not work in backyard composting. Most backyard systems will not reach high enough temperatures necessary to kill the pathogens and vermin present, so certain items such as meat scraps, dairy products and pet droppings are not advisable.
High carbon (brown) sources are necessary to generate heat. High nitrogen (green) sources are necessary to allow the decomposing bacteria to thrive.
Browns are high carbon materials and may include;
Dry straw, hay and grass clippings
Fallen leaves
Newspaper – shredded is best for rapid decomposition
Greens are high nitrogen materials and may include:
Green plant material such as garden residue, fresh hay, grass clippings, and weeds
Manure; such as horse, cow, chicken, or mushroom. Do not use pet droppings
Fruit and vegetable waste. Egg shells are excellent
Seaweed (rinse well to remove any salt)
Coffee grounds and filters
A few leaf species such as live oak, the southern magnolia and holly trees are too tough and leathery for decomposition, also avoid all parts of the black walnut tree as they contain a plant poison that will survive composting. Experience tells us to avoid using poison oak, poison ivy, and poison sumac in your compost.
Another ingredient which is often overlooked is moisture. Water the pile just enough to keep the contents moist but not saturated. In a couple of weeks, the pile should heat up to approximately to 160 degrees Fahrenheit. At this temperature many of the weed seeds and harmful organisms will be killed.
A compost bin or tumbler is ideal for the small garden. A tumbler will give you the quickest results due to the ease of aerating the compost, so figure at least 8 to 10 weeks for good compost to be ready to use. Spin the compost tumbler at least once a week. This will keep the compost aerated, in as much as it is necessary to provide oxygen to the mixture to achieve good results.
If at this point the temperature of the compost has dropped, turn the heat up by adding more nitrogen in the form of greens such as grass clippings or leaves from your produce trimmings, if manure is available it will get things cooking again. New material can always be added to the mix, although it will slow the process down.
Home composting uses a variety of techniques, from extreme passive (cold) composting (throw everything into a compost pile and leave it alone) to active (hot) which consists of monitoring the temperature and turning or rotating the pile on a regular basis.
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“Winter Light” – The Secret Garden (Piano)
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Kitchen Compost Crock
If you’re a composter then you know that sometimes it’s feel like a chore to take your kitchen scraps out to the compost bin. No one wants to run outside every time they eat an apple or chop some onions. Well you won’t have to anymore if you get a compost crock.
Compost crocks will blend right in on your kitchen countertop. They look more like cookie jars than a container to store your garbage in. And you’re going to want it right there in your kitchen so that it’s easy to fill. Peel a carrot or a cucumber, toss in the peels. Making coffee, toss in the grinds and even the filter too. Are you a fan of watermelon? The rinds can go right in your compost crock where they will wait until you have a free moment to dump them into your outside compost bin.
Now you may be thinking that it sounds pretty gross to store this waste in your kitchen. Well dont worry about smells because you can get a compost crock with a filter built right into the lid. With a carbon filter eliminating the odors, you wont even know its in your kitchen.
Now a days there are plenty of different styles to choose from. You can even match them to the style of your kitchen. A stainless steel compost crock will look great in a modern kitchen while a ceramic crock will add to the decor of a country kitchen nicely. And if you have a large family then why not get two of them. But don’t forget to empty them. I wouldn’t go longer than a week without emptying a crock.
Cleaning a compost crock is easy too. Depending on what you put in it, there may be some liquid at the bottom of the crock. Just pour this out on your compost bin and you can even rinse it out with your garden hose. Most compost crocks are even dishwasher safe. It’s a good idea to give it a good cleaning every once in a while.
Stop throwing away those banana peels, tea bags and anything else that could be used in your compost bin to make an terrific organic fertilizer. Its almost like throwing out money. A compost crock will make saving these items more convenient and that will make composting more convenient too.
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Vegetable Garden — My Compost Pile
Vegetable Garden — Composting the lazy way. Visit The Bayou Gardener in South Louisiana at http://www.thebayougardener.com
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