VERMI-COMPOSTING
Garbage disposal is a major problem in urban areas, specially in hotels and restaurants which generate a large quantity of food waste. A fast-food centre in Delhi tackled this problem by adopting vermi-composting to treat their waste. By this process, a culture of earthworms feeds on the waste and breaks it down to produce nutrient-rich manure. Which is then sold to farmers.
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Fundamentals Of Organic Gardening Products
Of course, you have to be in touch with the fundamentals of organic gardening products to fully take advantage and properly use the new agricultural technology products and methods when they finally come to the market and the gardening community, respectively.
First of all, you have to know how build the soil to make it as accommodating to the plant as possible. There are many substances that include this, namely: mulches, cover crops, manure, compost, and ground-rock mineral supplements. With this in your soil-nurturing kit, it will be a cinch to cultivate your plants and make your garden as beautiful as possible by using natural and/or organic methods.
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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Organic Flower Horticulture
You just cannot dive in into the world of organic gardening without doing your homework. It is a broad science, with each subject that branches out of it all contributing to the complex yet fulfilling world of organic horticulture. There are five schools of thought about organic horticulture.
The first is floriculture, which obviously means the cultivation of flora in your garden and the secrets, skills and knowledge required to maintain it. The science of knowing how to market these floras for your business is also included in this school of thought.
The second area of study is olericulture, where one learns how to cultivate and protect vegetables, which are very fragile vis-à-vis the pests that may exist in your garden.
Third is pomology, where the type of plants involved are fruits, the ones highly targeted by insects because of their edibility and their natural usage of giving life onto the garden, which basically means it has the necessary minerals and nutrients to carry that on.
Next is landscape flower horticulture, where one gets to design creative and captivating landscapes for the garden not only to attract people to it. But also provide the perfect backdrop for landscape plants.
And the last area of study in organic horticulture is post harvest physiology, which involves keeping the soil fresh for future usage and for the gardens general maintenance. Also, this is the school of thought wherein one gets to learn how to prevent spoilage from current horticultural crops. With these five areas of study mastered and put under your belt, you are sure to carry them all out and make the best garden possible.
With all these said, one can be an exceptional gardener with a little interest tucked in and a lot of perseverance carried over to create the best garden possible. All one has to do is to study the basics of organic gardening, which is knowing the soil, learning how to protect the plants and mastering the intricacies and needs of certain types of plants.
Organic Gardening Supplies, More Than A Rake And Hoe
Conventional wisdom says that organic gardening is a simple process wherein one just plants seeds and for it to grow to its potential, fertilizers are put around the area and pesticides are used to brush off annoying insects that may storm the garden. However, organic gardening is more than a step-by-step process; it is a science and even an art by itself, with myriad ways to let the plant flourish and it is always scrutinized by millions of scientists around the world to ensure safety and efficiency of the gardens growth.
Also, common wisdom says that organic gardening supplies simply involves a plough and a rake. In fact, it can be as high-tech as the newly released cellular phone. This agricultural art utilizes many things like rotary tillers, synthesized fertilizers and even biodegradable pesticides. With all the wonderful inventions for gardening, it seems as if its possibilities for growth are limitless and the dream of the disappearance of famine and hunger will soon be reachable.
Composting with the Worms
Yet another random school project, except this one’s for our school’s Environment Club.
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The JK 125 and JK 270 Composters. Your own Ecological Revolution!
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JK 125/JK 270 has been tested and evaluated in a project comprising 466 households in small houses and blocks of flats and day nurseries. The results have proved most satisfactory as has been shown in the Report No. 4229 by the Swedish Authority for Environment Conservation.
A rotating heat compost for convenient and simple use all the year round. Enjoy seeing the conversion of your kitchen waste into nutritious compost earth. Compost earth with which you can fertilize lawns, pot plants, and flower beds.
In a JK125 / 270 it´s an easy thing to compost all your kitchen food waste including meat and fish. Not many composters can do that.
The key to success is rotation
Mixing is necessary for making a compost to work well. Both for making the fresh waste coming into contact with that already mouldered, thereby rendering the process more effective, and in order to add air, necessary for the high demand for oxygen of the process.
This is done in a very simple way because JK 125/JK 270 being constructed for easy rotation. Furthermore it is very easy to adjust the air supply to suit the quantity of waste by aid of ventilators in the side walls of the machine. Insufficient airing makes a compost smell bad.
JK 125/JK 270 heat and efficiency
Breaking down of a compost generates heat. Different microorganisms start working at different temperatures. JK 125/JK 270 is well insulated and allows the temperature to rise to as high as +75 degrees centigrade at maximum breaking down. Without insulation it may not be possible to reach such a high temperature, which in turn means that microorganisms demanding high temperatures for their activity will never start working.
Using an insulated, rotating compost you get a more even heat distribution and an active breaking down process in the entire volume. That is why composting is made rapid; approximately 6 8 weeks time. The high temperature makes JK 125/JK 270 especially suited for kitchen waste.
Two compartments, for maximum result
JK 125/JK 270 is divided into two compartments to make emptying and bringing to maturity easier. The compartment filled last is covered by a sheet while the other compartment is emptied of its completed compost.
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Compost Tea from the Bokashi Indoor Kitchen Composter
After 4 weeks, the composter has produced about a 1/4 cup of compost tea. I didn’t add any water to the composter – all of this liquid came from anaerobic bacteria breaking up the fruit and vegetable scraps that I put in it.
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Indoor and Outdoor Organic Gardening Tips How to Make Organic Compost and Humates2
visits: www.envirocyclesystems.com for the best composter in the world. The Envirocycle Composter / Composteamaker is the first composter in the world to collect liquid compost tea, a rich organic plant food much appreciated by gardeners. The Envirocycle Composter/ Composteamaker is a 2-in-1 system: it produces two excellent natural fertilizers solid and liquid that can be used for house plants, outdoor plants, trees, gardens and lawns.
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Worm Compost Bin
Putting worms from the worm farm into a compost bin for vermicomposting.
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