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Compost in 40 gallon Containers for Container Gardening-Recycle your trash for compost

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:14:03 +0000

Hi! This is Going Organic. You can find our website at “www.goingorganic.weebly.com”! Today I am going to talk about composting.
It is winter time here in Central Florida. I am composting in containers to prepare for a container garden in the spring. I’ve drilled 3/8″ holes in the bottom of these 40 gallon containers. I’ve added oak leaves to the containers with shredded paper and cardboard from the home shredder, used coffee grounds from Starbucks, water from the fish pond, egg shells, cow manure, vegetable scraps.
All those old bills and junk mail you shred at home can be a carbon source for your compost. This is one more way to recycle and not send paper to the landfill.
Used coffee grounds are a good source of nitrogen. Once the grounds are used, their ph is close to neutral. So they are very safe for plants. I picked up this bag full of coffee grounds the other day. Starbucks has a recycling program for their coffee grounds. Anytime, you can walk in and ask for their used coffee grounds. They will pull the whole trash bag full of grounds out and double bag it for you. The other day, the server even carried it out to the car for me. I just want to say “Thanks!” to the Lake Mary Starbucks for all their free coffee grounds.
I’ve been using water from the fish pond, since it is used as liquid fertilizer in hydroponic systems. I have a page on my website on how to build an easy portable fish pond.
I save the egg shells from cooking, since tomatoes like calcium. I let them dry out overnight. Then I break up the eggshells into small pieces and add them to the compost.
Eventually I will substitute worm castings for cow manure. I didn’t start on my worm farm early enough to put it into this compost. The worm castings will provide much more nutritive value directly to the plant.
I had a lot of potatoe peals left over from Christmas dinner that I added to the containers a few days ago. Composting is a great way to recycle much of the waste that you usually take to the curb. Did you ever wonder how much of the trash in landfills is comprised of food waste. Well, according to the Department of Agriculture, it’s approximately 100 billion pounds every year. The average household alone ends up throwing out 14 percent of their food purchases.
Every few days, I dump the leaves into other containers to stir up all the leaves and increase the oxygen level in the mulch.
I put these large black garbage bags over the containers to accelerate the composting. This soil will be ready when all the leaves have broken down to the point where they can’t be recognized as leaves anymore. At that point, it should look like rich black soil.
So let me know what you think about the video. Also contact me at my website: “www.goingorganic.weebly.com”! I will keep you updated this coming spring on how well the compost turned out. Thanks for watching.

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It’s the Compost! Creating Abundance at K-JO Farm

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:57:04 +0000

Peak Moment 55: Karen Biondo and Joe Walling take us on a tour of their incredible backyard farm on Vashon Island, Washington. Pet the goats, see chickens dusting in divots, and crunch a carrot. See how Karen’s colorful paintbrush combined with Joe’s creativity with salvaged materials and hot compost are creating playful beauty and plentiful harvests.

Duration : 0:27:58

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Homemade Compost Tumbler SUPER FAST COMPOST

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:51:54 +0000

See our new compost tumbler. See how to build a compost tumbler to use at your house. Use it to make super fast compost

Duration : 0:2:43

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Build Big Garden Compost Bin

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:55:04 +0000

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

Duration : 0:1:35

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Complete walkthru tour of my garden

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:42:06 +0000

David asked for a tour of the garden, so here it is. All of the garden plants are shown this time.

Duration : 0:8:4

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2009 Garden Vlog 11, Pruning Cucumber Vines, Compost, Beans

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:10:28 +0000

I finally had to do *something* about my cucumber vines which were about to totally smother my cantaloupe and watermelon vines.

Also a little about my compost pile and my beans.

Music:
“Cumbia No Frills”
From:
Kevin Mcleod/Incompetech.com

Duration : 0:12:14

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Worm Garden and Organic Compost: What Benefits Worm Gardening Can Give and to Whom?

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:48:11 +0000

http://howtowormfarming.com Worm Garden and Organic Compost: What Benefits Worm Gardening Can Give and to Whom? Get to know what are the benefits of having a worm garden around.

Duration : 0:2:34

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Worm Garden and Garden Compost: What Benefits Worm Gardening Can Give

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:47:10 +0000

http://howtowormfarming.com Worm Garden and Garden Compost: What Benefits Worm Gardening Can Give. Know what benefits there are of putting up a worm garden, aside from getting worm compost.

Duration : 0:3:12

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2009 Garden Vlog 5, Total Garden Overview

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:35:20 +0000

Kinda long but I DO cover a LOT of territory with this video. And BTW if you’re wondering why I’ll be moving the big pile of partially decomposed wood chips to my lower garden eventually, it’s because I’ll mostly be moving my entire garden down there next season because the soil is MUCH better there.

It’s kinda odd. I’ve previously been uploading 720 x 480 WMV files and they’ve been filling the screen. This time I upped a 720 x 480 MP4 file and it didn’t fill the screen.
GRRRR

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Gardening with Compost Tea AMAZING RESULTS

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:24:05 +0000

See our square foot garden using compost tea. See how to use your worm bin to make compost tea

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