Vegetable Gardening : What Items Can I Put in a Compost Pile?
Almost any plant or animal can be put into a compost pile, with some examples including flowers, corn husks and grass. Find out whether corn cobs or bones can be used in compost piles with help from an organic farmer in this free video on gardening and horticulture.
Expert: Jarrett Man
Contact: stonesoupfarm.googlepages.com
Bio: Jarrett Man created and runs Stone Soup Farm, an organic vegetable and fruit operation in Belchertown, Mass.
Filmmaker: EquilibrioFilms Jenn
Duration : 0:2:11
Composting Part 1
Master Gardener Suzann Tedesco provides an introduction the use and benefits of composting.
Duration : 0:4:52
Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables
To grow enough food to sustain a household requires a huge amount of land so if you are going to grow vegetables you may as well do it organically by not using any pesticides or artificial fertilisers. You might just be growing for fun but this is also much cheaper than buying organic food, for which there are many benefits.
You can grow your own food free of any chemicals and pesticides using compost from recycled materials. Organic growing is entirely safe for you, your family and the environment. You can make your own compost very easily from more than half your household waste. Construct a compost bin from four wooden posts, some chicken wire and cardboard. Empty into it any wasted food, peelings and all sorts of paper.
Dedicate a small patch of land that gets the sun almost all year round; avoid being near buildings or fences as heavy metals, paints and chemicals can taint the soil and hinder growth. Be sure to get rid of any debris such as rocks, get rid of any weeds by hand and move any wanted plants to somewhere else. Turn the soil so it is loose and allowed to absorb air and moisture.
Spread organic material such as leaves, dried grass and fine plant material from a non-pesticide garden over your chosen area. Either buy or borrow some good quality compost or dark crumbly soil from under forest trees and spread it thinly over your patch. This will provide your soil with all sorts of organisms and beneficial life forms that will work the soil for you if you give them the chance.
Mix the top three inches of soil and organic material to help them work. Keep the soil damp but not soggy, never walk on the soil, when you are working with the plants, use a kneeling board. Obtain some vegetables in small square pots, commonly available from garden centres. Place the bulb and its roots in a small hole, deeper than the size of the bulb itself. Cover with plenty of organic material and water.
When your vegetables are planted you will only need to check them on an infrequent basis, making sure the water level is good, soil is rich and debris is clear. If you want to use them, pick them shortly before as without the chemicals they will decompose fairly rapidly.
You will need to be wary of lawn weeds and lawn moss as these can damage your vegetables but otherwise don’t worry too much as the soil will look after itself.
W2 TV: Positively Green Ep 1 City Farmer
Sharon and Michael, of Vancouver compost demonstration, take us on a tour of their compound, including the various new technologies that make composting, gardening and greening more urban home friendly.
http://www.creativetechnology.org
Duration : 0:4:1
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2009 Garden Vlog 11, Pruning Cucumber Vines, Compost, Beans
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”
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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?
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.
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Worm Garden and Garden Compost: What Benefits Worm Gardening Can Give
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.
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2009 Garden Vlog 5, Total Garden Overview
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
Duration : 0:17:3
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Morgan Composting – Cow Kitchen
MorganCompostinghttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/morgancompostingPeopleCow Kitchen, dairy doo, morgan composting, organic compost, organic gardening, organic farming, Michigan, farmingMorgan Composting – Cow Kitchen
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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.
Duration : 0:6:4
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