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How to Compost : Learn Organic Garden Composting Online : Choosing a Compost Bin

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:43:04 +0000

http://www.HomeOrganicGarden.net Organic gardening is much more then just avoiding the use of chemicals on your garden. For many people it is an outlook on living using nature’s laws to grow their fruits, vegetables, and other plants naturally. This is usually a personal choice made in light of much research done into the importance of diet as it relates to our health and longevity.

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Should you be an organic gardening newbie, you are going to need to know what supplies to purchase to be successful with your garden. Organic gardens are not too much different than other kinds of gardens. The main exception is that the gardening supplies like fertilizers ought to be free of artificial chemicals and the like.

Have you ever considered growing your own organic vegetables from home? If you think it is hard work or to difficult, then I want to share with you how I grow my own organic vegetables from home. The reason why I started growing my own vegetables was, because I realized that most vegetables that are grown commercially are sprayed with chemicals that are harmful to our bodies.

Composter. Genuine organic gardening demands using composting materials, and it really is a lot simpler when you possess the correct tools. Some sort of compost crock which rests within your kitchen area and holds food waste may be bought on-line for less than twenty-five dollars. Bigger, compost tumblers sell for much more, however when you are determined to truly pursue organic gardening, it will be the best method for recycling.

Organic gardening compost is made by decomposing anything which decomposes like leftover food, rotten veggies or even animal waste. Dog and cat waste are generally not used as they may spread infection. These materials are filled in layers in a pit covered from rain. It must be mixed regularly so that it decomposes evenly.

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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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Human Urine for Compost, Start to Finish

admin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:38:17 +0000

Urine adds Nitrogen and Water to your compost. Easy. Free (actually it SAVES money by avoiding wasteful flushing of your toilet). Clean (human urine is sterile, unless you have a UTI (urinary tract infection, during which you should probably flush it down your toilet). Think of the millions of gallons of water that cities could save if citizens avoided the wasteful flushing. Meanwhile, it helps microoranisms make compost into great soil. My motto: “Urine may look YELLOW, but it’s environmentally GREEN!”

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Compost : Starting Compost Heaps

admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:33:02 +0000

Starting compost heaps or compost bins, learn to mix everything up what containers to use and the best place to do it in this free gardening video.

Expert: Yolanda Vanveen
Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com
Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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Compost Tea w/ Howard Garrett

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:03:01 +0000

Dirt Doctor elaborates on compost tea and how to make it @ home. For more information, check out Howard’s website on the subject of compost tea: http://www.dirtdoctor.com/view_question.php?id=152

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Urine Composting: Compost your Pee

admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:50:49 +0000

Human urine is a great, natural, free source of Nitrogen for your soil or compost.
Flushing your urine after each pee, would waste thousands of gallons of water per year at home. Then, your valuable urine is not only lost, but it goes to a chemical waste center where they must use chemicals on all that water you flushed, since within the sewage pipes it has all gotten mixed with stool.
To minimize the water shortages seen in so many communities, an easy way to save water is by NOT flushing away your urine. Using it for your compost or garden is an extra benefit. (If you just let it sit in the toilet bowel until you have a bowel movement, then the urine can start to smell up your bathroom, and your garden or compost would be missing out on a great source of liquid nitrogen.)

Try it…. it is much easier, cleaner, and normal than you might think.

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Loveable Loo Eco-Friendly Compost Toilet

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:05:01 +0000

This video is obsolete because we now make a new and improved version of the Loveable Loo. The new video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jhFKSjvqX4

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Putting Compost on Your Organic Garden

admin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:13:01 +0000

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Organic gardening is much more then just avoiding the use of chemicals on your garden. For many people it is an outlook on living using nature’s laws to grow their fruits, vegetables, and other plants naturally. This is usually a personal choice made in light of much research done into the importance of diet as it relates to our health and longevity.

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Starting a New Humanure Compost Pile

admin — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:55:43 +0000

From HumanureHandbook.com: This short video clip shows a humanure compost pile on its first day. The empty bin bottom is dished out, the “biological sponge” is added, and toilet materials are deposited.

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In-Garden Composting Made Easy

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:52:04 +0000

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