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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Automatic Compost/Soil Sifter
Homemade compost sifter built using a cheap jigsaw. Small, transportable, and for a quick fix it does a nice job. Watch out for version 2 that’ll at least be a little tidier 
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Testing Home Compost Units: Intro
Part one of a study being conducted by the Sacramento Master Gardeners testing various composting units and methods.
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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.
Garden Compost
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The NEW EarthCare Composter from Segura Trading
This brand new compost bin tumbler was designed for extreme portability, ease of use, cleaning, and quick on the go setup and take down. http://www.ourcrazydeals.com/compostbins.html
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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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Amending the garden beds… ..rock dust, compost, worms!!
Amending the beds for a new crop! We’re using rock dust, compost, and tons of WORMS!! We’re using Azomite, as a rock dust, it’s full of ancient sea life and a very powdery, fine dust!
You can find it locally or online, from places like groworganic.com
You can also create your own rock dust from crushing rocks, or source it at local rock yard. The more diversity the better…
For more information on soil…check out SECRETS OF THE SOIL” by Tompkins and Bird.
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How to Till Your Garden – brought to you by Troy-Bilt
Tips on tilling your garden with compost, peat, humus.
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Fundamentals Of Organic Gardening Products
Of course, you have to be in touch with the fundamentals of organic gardening products to fully take advantage and properly use the new agricultural technology products and methods when they finally come to the market and the gardening community, respectively.
First of all, you have to know how build the soil to make it as accommodating to the plant as possible. There are many substances that include this, namely: mulches, cover crops, manure, compost, and ground-rock mineral supplements. With this in your soil-nurturing kit, it will be a cinch to cultivate your plants and make your garden as beautiful as possible by using natural and/or organic methods.