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Composting Fall Leaves

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:14:04 +0000

How to compost fall leaves and other vegetative material. Shows inexpensive bin and how to turn compost. This is one of many videos that will follow the gardening season chronologically in Kansas City. We hope that people can follow along and work in their own gardens. Organotill features organic no-till methods.

Duration : 0:11:30

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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.

Duration : 0:4:45

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Building a Community Garden Compost Bin

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:46:22 +0000

This is the sixth in a series of composting with Annie Hauck-Lawson, CUNY professor, nutritionist and master composter. If you like this episode, check out the others on our channel, cuehim321. Let us know what you think, comments are appreciated. The video was directed and edited by Jeff Samaha, stage manager/director for a major network in NY. Please look for our channel at cuehim321.For video production of any kind, please contact us at www.jeffsamaha.com or call 917 796-2474.

Duration : 0:7:19

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How to Make Compost with Only a Bag of Leaves

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:28:10 +0000

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You can make compost by using a bag of leaves. It’s an alternate method of composting, but it totally works. Basically, when you’ve just got a big bag of leaves, you can compost right in the bag – just add some nitrogen rich material (coffee grounds, etc) and then get some water in there (so it’s wet), and then seal up the garbage bag and leave it for a year or six months or so – and that’s it…rich leaf mulch – which is just like finished compost.

For more composting tips, please visit us on the web at the site listed at the top of this description. Hope this helps, and happy composting!

Duration : 0:1:23

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Composting Leaves

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:31:27 +0000

What’s falling from the trees this fall should turn up in your garden next year… as nutrient rich soil. Allen Smith reminds us that fall leaves are as good as gold.

Duration : 0:1:33

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

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:50:30 +0000

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.

Duration : 0:10:59

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Compost Tips: Troubleshooting

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:44:11 +0000

http://www.cleanairgardening.com/accessories.html If you add a lot of kitchen scraps to your compost bin and are not seeing the results you expect, consider adding more carbon-rich materials like leaves, newspaper or dried grass clippings.

Duration : 0:2:23

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Organic Compost Gardening : Watering Organic Compost

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:13:14 +0000

Adding inoculants to water can help add healthy nutrients to your organic compost pile. Learn some tips for watering your compost pile from a professional gardener in this free gardening video.

Duration : 0:2:45

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Organic Compost Gardening : Organic Compost Soil Aeration

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:02:04 +0000

Aerating the soil is an important part of preparing your organic compost pile. Learn to aerate the soil for easy drainage from a professional organic gardener in this free gardening video.

Duration : 0:1:32

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Organic Compost Gardening : Adding Grass & Weeds to Organic Compost

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:08:03 +0000

Adding the grass and weeds to your organic compost pile is a diligent and important process. Learn to organize your materials in layers from a professional organic gardener in this free gardening video.

Duration : 0:1:16

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