In Depth Guide to Home Composting (Part 1 of 3)
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What Materials Can You Compost?
Pretty much all your organic household and garden waste is an elligible candidate for composting although there are a few exceptions. Things to particularly avoid are meat, fish, bones, fats and oils, dairy products like milk and cheese, dog and cat droppings as these can attract animals, create foul smells as they degrade and carry nasty diseases. Also, whilst weeds and plants can be added, it is advised to dry out persisent weeds and remove seed heads before adding these. Ashes are also best avoided, as are glossy magazines although shredded paper and cardboard are fine to add. Feel free to add waste fruit and vegetables, crushed egg shells, coffee grounds (worms love them!) and tea bags, hair, leaves, grass clippings and other organic waste. As a general rule, if in doubt, leave it out but most organic waste will rot down just fine and if you shred it or cut it up smaller, it will compost faster.
How Long Before It Becomes Compost?
This depends on the balance of materials in your compost heap, the weather and the amount of time you can devote to the project. If you want to take an active managed approach to your composting then you can have afully composted pile in 3 months but if your only desire is to dispose of kitchen and garden waste in a more ‘green’ manner then it can take 6 months to a year or longer.
Managed composting can produce a ‘hot rot’ with very fast results but it does require additional effort on your behalf to keep it going. A managed, hot compost heap with an excellent balance of materials can reach temperatures of 70 degree celsius but requires regular turning and nurturing with careful layering and balance of browns and greens in the mix, shredding materials and maintaining a good moisture level.
An unmanaged cool heap is however much easier to maintain and rots down at up to 30 degrees celsius with little input from you. Just throwing your waste on the heap will give you a cooler heap which will rot down more slowly but is fine for green waste disposal purposes.
There are ways to increase the rate of the composting process in both cases by, for example, adding composting worms, or by using an activator which help speed up the process. The addition of a handful or soil now and then or horse manure will also add micro-organisms to speed up the composting process free of charge.
For The Best Compost…
…use a wide variety of different materials. The more varied the materials you add to the compost pile, the nutrient rich your final compost will be. Compost made from kitchen and garden waste is the best food for your plants and at the same time you are helping the environment and saving yourself and your local government money into the bargain.
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Composting Connie – “Come And See My Garden Grow”
The virtues of composting, set to music. From Glendale, California, public access.
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How to Make a Worm Compost Bin – Cheap and Easy
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Composting Part 2 – Garden Organic’s Video Guide: How to make compost
How to make compost Garden Organic’s Video Guide Part 2 includes: – When is the compost ready – Using your compost
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Composting Part 1 – Garden Organic’s Video Guide: How to make compost
How to make compost Garden Organic’s Video Guide Part 1 includes: – Where to put your compost bin – What can and can’t be composted – Filling the bin – Compost activators – Getting the mixture right – Hot and cool composting
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VIDEO # 9-GROWING LETTUCE-INDOORS-COMPOST TEAS ORGANIC FERTILIZER
Growing lettuce in baggies is very successful. Our elementary school grew over 500 heads of lettuce in baggies with this method. And these children supplimented the cafeteria’s menu with organic lettuce, they grew themselves. This video contains; 1)How to Grow Lettuce indoors 2)How to Make Compost Tea-Organic Fertilizer The success to growing healthy vegetables is the nutrients inside of the dirt and water. On our farm we made 5 gallon buckets of compost tea to fertilize our vegetable …
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Hydroponics Secrets Seven, Nirvana Organic Compost Tea
http://www.advancednutrients.com presents Hydroponics Secrets featuring Erik Biksa revealing tips and tricks to give hydroponics and organic growers bigger and better yields.
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My 2008 Vegetable Container Garden – PART 5
Week 6 update.
The mixture that I used in the pots outside so far have been:
1 Part Compost
1 Part Peet Moss
1 Part Perlite
1 Part Potting Soil
I may change it up a bit in the future to 40% peet moss, 40% compost and 20% perlite.
Music: “Everyday” by
The Dave Matthews Band
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Jora Big Pig Compost Maker-home organic gardening easy on you and the environment
http://stores.vitality4life.com.au/Home_Composting/
Organic home gardening made easy with this environmentally friendly rotating heat-generating and insulated composter.
Convenient and simple to create living soil nutrients all year round.
Enjoy seeing the transformation of your kitchen waste into ecologically sustainable nutritious compost you can use to fertilise lawns, pot plants, vegetable gardens and flower beds.
This Swedish designed quality home composting unit is manufactured to impeccably high standards. Available in 2 sizes, both units feature 2 insulated compartments and are self standing or can be mounted to the wall (brackets included).
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