How to Use a Compost Bin in Your Garden
Home improvement expert Danny Lipford shows you some tips on how to use a compost bin to improve the soil in your garden.
Duration : 0:1:35
Amending the garden beds… ..rock dust, compost, worms!!
Amending the beds for a new crop! We’re using rock dust, compost, and tons of WORMS!! We’re using Azomite, as a rock dust, it’s full of ancient sea life and a very powdery, fine dust!
You can find it locally or online, from places like groworganic.com
You can also create your own rock dust from crushing rocks, or source it at local rock yard. The more diversity the better…
For more information on soil…check out SECRETS OF THE SOIL” by Tompkins and Bird.
Duration : 0:2:36
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Growing at Reiman Gardens 030 Compost Tea
On this episode of Growing at Reiman Gardens, Jeremy Orr, Iowa State University student and summer gardener, demonstrates how to prepare a compost tea that is great for your vegetable garden. All you need is water, ordinary aquarium supplies, molasses, and good compost for a totally organic fertilizer. For more information about Reiman Gardens, please visit www.reimangardens.com
Duration : 0:7:48
How To Divide Garbage To Minimize The Landfill
In most communities, reducing, reusing, and recycling waste has become a standard practice to minimize the amount of garbage going into landfills. Sorting your waste will often depend on the recycling program in your community. Most have guidelines published for residents. There are general guidelines, though.
Sorting garbage can reduce the impact on landfill by about 75%. The first step is to separate the organic/food waste from all the other garbage. That means anything that has grown; vegetable matter, meat, yard waste, tea bags, coffee grounds, eggshells and table scraps. These materials are all compostable, and many communities use the compost for plants and trees by roadsides and in town gardens, and sometimes sell the compost to home gardeners. It is also possible to compost in your own backyard. Compost bins are easy to construct, and once you have good compost up and running, it practically takes care of itself.
The next category of garbage is the bottles, tin foil and cans. This might include juice and milk cartons, plastic bags, bubble wrap, rigid plastic packaging. These items should be rinsed before sorting. They can all be diverted from landfill and sent for recycling. Old tires and building materials can also be diverted from landfill for recycling. Recycling equipment is used to help process these materials. Some of the products being made from these recyclables are floor tiles, road surfaces, sandals, swings, carpeting, plastic furniture and many other imaginative and creative products.
Paper and cardboard is the other broad category. This would include cardboard boxes that food such as cereal comes in. It would also include newspapers, letters and envelopes, toilet paper rolls, and any other dry clean paper product. Boxes should be flattened to minimize the bulk and making the pick-up more efficient. Paper and paper products are recycled into paper and paper products. There is an increasing demand for recycled paper from consumers and companies. The process is kinder to the environment, and calls for fewer trees to be felled for paper. Landfills are filling up across the continent. By removing those items that can be recycled – paper, cardboard, glass, wood, organic matter – we reduce the impact on landfill sites. We also minimize the impact of landfill seepage into the water table. Making our garbage as small as possible reduces our imprint on the planet, and extends the life and health of our landfills.
When organic matter ends up in a landfill, the normal breakdown into nutrients does not occur, because the fill is packed so tightly that air does not circulate around the decaying matter. Rather than return nutrients to the earth, organic matter under those conditions produces methane, which contributes to global warming. Landfills become clogged with items that will never degrade, such as plastics. In the manufacturing process, petroleum, the primary element of plastics, is altered so that it is not recognized by the bacteria and enzymes that break down matter to its reusable form. Removing these products from landfill and sending them off to be reused is a more efficient way of handling the resources that are in limited supply. There are other products that may degrade naturally if exposed to sunlight, but that also is unlikely in a heavily packed landfill. Again, removing those items from that stream, and sending them to new uses through recycling saves energy, resources and the health of the planet.
Recycling can take up a lot of space. Using compaction equipment to help compress recyclables is a great way to not only speed up the process, but save time and money in the long run. Look up on compactor today – improve your waste removal and disposal!
Composting Kitchen Scraps in a Worm Bin Revealed
This video is an update of my worm bin. Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl and Al, the Garden Kid open their worm bin to harvest the worm castings from their kitchen scraps for use in their container plants. See what tons of kitchen scraps, junk mail and 5 pounds of red wiggler worms can do. It really works and anyone can do it. If you ever wanted to see how it works watch this video. If you want to make your own watch the response video “How to Make Your Own Worm Bin” There’ s lots more to see at http://www.gardengirltv.com, http://www.urbansustainableliving.com, and http://www.gardenkidtv.com. Please subscribe to Patti’s Youtube Channel and subscribe to her FREE Magazine at http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001jyV49J2cwWrp2c-CwT58zA%3D%3D
Duration : 0:4:27
Watch Your Worm Farm Grow
Frequently individuals decide to raise chickens while there are others who prefer livestock but if you want to help the soil or restore its nutrients, then what you should do is build a worm farm yourself instead of buying one. The nice thing about making a worm farm is that the price isn’t that much. The only things you’ll really need are 3 or 4 stackable bins or crates made of plastic, wood or some other light and water resistant compound, some worms, and some insect screen for the bottom portion ripped up newspaper, garden soil or potting mix, water and good scraps.
When you finally have all of these it’s time to commence building the new worm farm by placing a number of holes in the lid and on the bottom. The number of holes in the lid depends largely on the size of the box but keep in mind that this should be evenly spaced to allow oxygen to enter and excess water, as well as to let any worm waste drain along with the water. The insect screen you picked up needs to be put on the bottom of the tub.
Now that you’ve made on the exterior of the worm farm, it’s time to go to the inside by filling some of the container with shredded newspaper. You should put three quarters of this inside and make sure you dampen it with water before adding the soil or possibly potting mix this is just to make sure the worms eat the scraps you provide. When you are done it’s time to show the worms into their new home. Some people will pour in about a thousand worms and as long as you keep them happy, they will reproduce and more likely than not, you’ll lose count of their exact number.
But what do we do the other stuff? The last thing we need to do is to place the extras containers over the first one.
If you have any idea what worms like to eat, some examples are coffee grounds or tea bags, smashed egg shells, fruit peelings, hair, stale cookies and cakes, fine wood shavings, plate scraps, moist cardboard, vacuum cleaner debris and vegetable scraps. In short, worms love to eat dirt and leftovers but don’t put too much since you might over feed them. The best way to determine what enough is would be to only give them a little bit at first and then observe how long it takes for them to finish eating that batch before you put in more food. Since the area is large it’ll also help to lay their food in different locations each time.
Watch your worms regularly so you can be certain that the shredded newspaper doesn’t dry out and if the old newspaper needs to be changed, make sure to replace this with a new one.
As with all things in nature, poop will gather at the bottom though might also be called vermicast and vermicast helps plants grow. You can only get the vermicast without letting the worms come out, so it is best to open the container and just leave it under direct sunlight for a bit. Worms hate sunlight so by their nature, they’ll look for cover and you won’t have a hard time to grab the vermicast and shut the lid
The worm farm is wonderful with and will help you in growing flowers, fruits or even vegetables and all it takes is a little willpower to get the assistance of these little creatures.
To learn more about the best worm composting troubleshooting. Visit our site diy worm composting.
Raised Bed Garden
Raised Bed Garden Construction – Phase One. My first attempt at building a Raised Bed Garden. We have a nice variety of vegetables planted in the bed. I chose to plant the vegetables utilizing a kind of “Permaculture” method. This means instead of grouping like kind vegetables together in the garden, we mixed the vegetables throught the bed. This allows the vegetable to utilize the garden in a more natural manner. This helps to prevent nutrient depletion in the soil and also aides in fighting off unwanted garden pest while attracting beneficial insects.
Duration : 0:4:27
organic garden diary —liquid fertilizer compost on Dec 15th
organic garden diary —liquid fertilizer compost on Dec 15th, Compost demonstration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFDIBChF-_Q
Duration : 0:6:53