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.

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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by admin and filed under garden composter | No Comments »

Build Big Garden Compost Bin

Build a large compost bin for your garden. Use pallets and connect them together. Greenpower farm shows you how.

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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by admin and filed under garden composter | 4 Comments »

Making Hypertufa Garden Art

Hypertufa, a lightweight man made material similar to stone, was created as a substitute for the natural rock called Tufa. It is used to make a myriad of garden art objects. Anyone can make hypertufa, it’s really not that difficult. Hopefully, this article will be of some help.

The materials needed to make hypertufa include Portland Cement, peat moss, sand or gravel, perlite, vermiculite and others. There are a lot of different recipes and combinations of the ingredients you can use. The most basic hypertufa mixture will contain Portland cement, peat moss, sand or perlite, and of course water.

What is hypertufa good for? It has a myriad of uses, you are limited only by your imagination. It’s perfect for plant containers, stepping stones, sculptures, fake rocks and all sorts of garden ornaments. It’s really amazing what you can make with it.

Making hypertufa is not much different than a child making mud pies. It’s equally fun. You need a mixture and a mold. For molds you can use all kinds of items you can find around the house. Tupperware, pans, pots, various containters, cardboard boxes, wastebaskets, even halloween masks can come in handy.

The process is simple. You apply the mixture to the outside of the mold, cover it with a garbage bag and seal tightly. If you’re making planters, don’t forget to add drainage holes. Put it under the sun for about 3-5 days, then carefully remove from the mold. Cover it up again with plastic bag and allow it to cure for about a month. That’s it.

A word of advice – start simple. Mixing and building hypertufa is a like mixing and baking a cake. You don’t start with a complicated cake recipe, you start easy and work your way up.

If you want to enhance your garden’s look and beautify its appearance, hypertufa is a way to go. It’s fun, affordable and easy way to create your own garden art.

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Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Jessie Walters and filed under gardening | No Comments »

BUGS Fermented Compost Intro

a brief introduction and overview of the fermented compost method, specifically framed for domestic kitchen (food) waste.

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Posted on June 7th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen compost | No Comments »

How to Make Bokashi

A Short film about making Bokashi–a fermented wheat bran–used to pickle kitchen food waste to help it compost quicker without foul odors.

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Posted on May 20th, 2009 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 25 Comments »

Rotating Composter DIY

Alex made a composter out of a 55 gallon drum that rolls and aerates.

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Posted on May 4th, 2009 by admin and filed under garden composter | 2 Comments »

Apartment Composting 101: Vermicompost with Barb Finnin

UPDATE:

We have modified this original design to a shallower, more airy worm bin. Check out our new design here, http://ryanishungry.com/2007/09/14/vermicomposting-born-again-worm-bin/ Cheers! Good Luck!
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Barb Finnin is part of the amazing Freshtopia team. She’s a certified master composter- her specialty is Vermicomposting with worms. We were super excited to learn that we could compost in our city apartment with a homemade worm bin even though we don’t have a yard. Throwing food scraps away in the garbage is not something either of us enjoys, so having a green alternative has been more than satisfying for our sustainability goals. After 4 weeks, our worms are happy and thriving.

Find out more about Vermicomposting and other forms of composting on Wikipedia. Visit Barb at Freshtopia.net.

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Posted on April 30th, 2009 by admin and filed under worm compost | 14 Comments »

How to Make a Worm Compost Bin – Cheap and Easy

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Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by admin and filed under worm compost | 1 Comment »

Apartment Composting 101: Vermicompost with Barb Finnin

UPDATE:

We have modified this original design to a shallower, more airy worm bin. Check out our new design here, http://ryanishungry.com/2007/09/14/vermicomposting-born-again-worm-bin/ Cheers! Good Luck!
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Barb Finnin is part of the amazing Freshtopia team. She’s a certified master composter- her specialty is Vermicomposting with worms. We were super excited to learn that we could compost in our city apartment with a homemade worm bin even though we don’t have a yard. Throwing food scraps away in the garbage is not something either of us enjoys, so having a green alternative has been more than satisfying for our sustainability goals. After 4 weeks, our worms are happy and thriving.

Find out more about Vermicomposting and other forms of composting on Wikipedia. Visit Barb at Freshtopia.net.

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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by admin and filed under worm compost | 14 Comments »

The Worm Swag

this is the worm swag

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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by admin and filed under worm compost | 9 Comments »
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