Compost Tea


Brewing a batch of aerated worm casting tea. Great for boosting all living systems in the garden and right on plants.

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Posted on March 9th, 2011 by admin and filed under composting | 26 Comments »

Building a composting toilet


It’s so easy to build your very own sawdust composting toilet. Here’s how.

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Posted on December 28th, 2010 by admin and filed under composting | 15 Comments »

Trash Can Compost Bin


I have to say, I’m one of these people who love compost. Well, I should say I love the results of compost. If you want a beautiful garden, you ought to be taking advantage of the things around your gardener yard. Now let me show you how to create a compost bin. If you’ve never done this before, it’s really a lot easier than you think. What I’m starting out with here is about a 40-to-50-gallon standard trash bin. And it’s important that you get one that has a lid where the lids lock, and I’ll explain that in just a moment.

Now, what I’ve done is, I’ve gone around it, and I’ve drilled these holes all the way around. I’ve used a 3/4-inch bit. And here in the top, I’ve used a 1/2-inch bit. This allows air to circulate through the bin itself. And you can see, I have it sitting on a pair of concrete blocks, again, for air to get inside the compost, which is an important component to making it.

Now, what you want to do is, you want to use green and brown and alternate them. And what I mean by that is green could be any sort of clippings from the garden. It could be scraps from the kitchen. Now, you don’t want to put any sort of meat product or cooked vegetables in here, but things like the peelings of apples or carrots — the tops of carrots, that sort of thing. That qualifies as green. You want to chop it up in tiny pieces and throw it in here with some brown. And the brown could be the leaves that you rake up or straw or anything or pine needles that you have. And so, by layering those, you’re adding carbon and a source of nitrogen — carbon the brown, nitrogen the green. Okay?

So, you start layering it, and then you can turn your compost quite easily. Just by putting the lid on it, locking it down, and rolling it around. Now, you want to make sure that you don’t get too much compost in here, and it makes it too difficult for you to move around.

Or you can take a drill with an auger and turn the compost. You want to do that about every two weeks. In about 8 to 12 weeks, depending on what you put in here, you’re gonna have some black gold that’s gonna make your plants grow like you can’t believe.

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Posted on November 10th, 2010 by admin and filed under composting | 2 Comments »

Ask Torg – How to make a compost toilet

Dr. James Torgerson teaches you how to make a compost toilet! empowermentchannel.org

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Posted on October 14th, 2010 by admin and filed under composting | 23 Comments »

Living with Ed: Compost

Ed reminds Rachelle of the composting rules.

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Posted on September 21st, 2010 by admin and filed under composting | 6 Comments »

500 showers heated from one small compost pile how to tutorial

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Brian Kerkvliet from Inspiration Farm tells us about his little compost pile that provided 500 hot showers. Compost heat can, indeed, be captured to heat water. After the hot showers, you have a lovely pile of compost! The moisture from the shower feeds mushrooms! Hot water, compost and mushrooms. Permaculture!

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Posted on June 19th, 2010 by admin and filed under composting | 20 Comments »

Make Garden Compost out of your waste – Recycle your Most Plentiful Organic Resource

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how you can make garden compost out of your most plentiful organic resource. He visits a friends place to learn about this way of composting.

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Posted on May 4th, 2010 by admin and filed under garden composter | 25 Comments »

Homemade Compost Tumbler SUPER FAST COMPOST

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

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Posted on April 28th, 2010 by admin and filed under garden composter | 25 Comments »

The right way to Utilize a Compost Bucket in Your Kitchen

You possibly can compost your kitchen wastes even as long as you live in an city neighborhood, or have a very smaller yard. The finest method to try this is to increase a compost bucket.

A compost bucket is just a container which lives inside your kitchen. You put your compostable food scraps into this and after it’s full, you carry it outside to dump right into a larger container, dump it into the ground, or else leave that bucket outside in order to cure, though having a new pail inside.

Considered one of the explanations a compost bucket is so great for indoor composting is because of their capability to maintain odors inside. Lots of buckets have charcoal filters that maintain the smells inside. This enables you to keep the bucket indoors for a considerably extended time. The filters are generally replaceable, and requirement to be replaced every 3-4 months. Provided that your container does not employ a filter, it is possible to utilize a layer of straw or newspaper. This does not work as well as a filter, however it works.

It is possible to place any of the identical food wastes that you would normally compost right into a compost bucket. You should attempt to range the food though, in order to acquire a more balanced result. This means with damp green nitrogen loaded wastes along with dry, brown, carbon abundant materials. It is possible to compost any vegetable wastes-peels, seeds, foliage, as well as eggshells, coffee grinds, coffee filters, as well as tea bags.

In order to acquire your compost to rot quicker, you can apply several things. The first is to make sure to cut everything before placing it into the container. The smaller the wastes are, the more rapidly they’ll decompose. You may additionally want to keep this within sunlight providing you are able to. You can do this via keeping the container near a window as long as workable. The warmth will also help to increase the decomposition process. An additional great thing that can be done is to include water. Ensure that the compost is moist, however not soaked. This will assist it break down too.

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Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Kendra Grenad and filed under compost | No Comments »

Gardening Rhythms: Making and Using Green Manure in yout garden and compost

Gardening Rhythms – Host Paul Holowko shows how to use Green Manure in your garden and compost to help your plants to grow.

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Posted on February 24th, 2010 by admin and filed under garden composter | No Comments »
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