Compost Bins – Make Your Own

Unfortunately not everyone is a gardener and not everyone appreciates a compost pile in the back yard. When it grows to the three or four piles that the typical fast composter likes, the problem grows. Besides, not every hardened gardener wants three or four piles in the back yard. The solution is simple, buy or make compost bins. While buying is expensive, building is as quick and simple as you wish to make it.

Compost – Bins of Black Gold – Looking to Buy

Gardeners and organic gardeners in particular call compost “black gold.” It is simply that good for the garden. However, even after realizing that compost piles do not have to smell bad nor attract vermin, some homeowners simply do not like the look of a compost pile or three in the back yard. This becomes even more obvious in a suburban setting with the smaller lots so many seem to have. Besides which the neighbors likely see every thing that goes on in the back yard and the neater it is the better. Enter the compost bin.

Compost – Dry Material? Make a Wood Turner Your Friend

Compost is best made with a formula of green and brown material mixed at equal volumes. This usually gives a carbon to nitrogen ratio that allows for good decomposition and lots of heat to be generated. Green material is usually quick to hand, especially during the heavy growing season. For the dry material, sometimes it is a good thing to have a wood turning friend.

Compost – Building the Pile Big – Collection for Gold

Organic gardeners consider compost to be black gold, the ingredient above all for healthy soil and healthy soil means healthy plants. It is fairly simple to acquire the materials for a good sized backyard composting system, but what if you are preparing a new, large garden in poor to nominal soil? In such cases a layer of compost 3″ thick is desired and in some cases 4″.

Compost – Top and Bottom for the Best Growth

What is one to do in mid season when the crops and flowers are growing and the compost is ready? You could store it but rains would leach out some of the good and besides, this is the time of year when there is a lot of green material begging to be made into compost. Consider the forest floor. There the compost is made on the top of the soil and used by the roots below. Prepare to mulch.

Making Compost – Remember the Number Three

For quick compost the number to remember is three. There was a joke in the old Peanuts comics where Peppermint Patty would be falling asleep in class. Abruptly she would wake as the teacher called her name and shout, ” Three, the answer is three!” If the question dealt with quick composting she may well have been right.

Compost – The Big Feast for the Garden

Compost succeeds in feeding plant and soil where the commercial fertilizers fail. Long term use of chemical fertilizers will ruin the land while the compost feast will feed soil and plant alike. Healthy soil, healthy plant and wonderful harvest. Compost rules.

Composting – Doing it in a Big Way

Three is the magic number for a compost pile, especially in a quick compost system. In order for it to work well it needs to be three feet, three feet wide and three feet long. For most people this translates into a compost bin three feet on a side or a pile three feet in diameter. What about the times when you simply have too much material for a small pile?

Make Compost Piles – Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants

The easiest way for the home gardener to grow healthy soil is to add compost. When the season is not yet begun, layer it on the garden and then dig it in. Soils vary but about 3″ the first year for a garden and 1″ each year thereafter is often used as a rule of thumb.

Making Compost – Turning the Pile

Why turn over a pile of compost? For some of us it is the wonder of looking into an ever changing world in the middle of the pile. Plant material gradually changes as the compost works. As the pile progresses, it becomes harder and harder to distinguish the original material. Smells change and become richer and more earthy. Others are more concerned with getting the material quickly ready for the garden and turning the pile makes composting faster.

Making Compost Piles – You Can Use the Heat

Hot compost piles use the heat of the pile to make compost faster. This simple system can generate finished compost in as little as two weeks. The secrets are really common sense and easily learned for more great garden compost.

Composting – From Kitchen to Garden

Composting is a mystery for many and it does not need to be. Waste from the kitchen can be a slimy mess or, with a bit of help, it can be black gold in the garden.

Compost Pile – Water Saver for All

Compost is a great aid as one of the difficulties facing us today is the growing lack of water. It is not sure what differences global warming will bring to our water supply but it will change, and not for the better it seems. Be that as it may, it merely raises the challenge for the home gardener to use water well and wisely. One of the first places to look is the soil and this means looking towards the compost pile.

Compost Tea – the Gardener’s Tea Bag

Compost is known to be a good source of readily available nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, the big three of fertilizer nutrients. However, the nature of compost as it comes from a vast array of plant materials determines that it is a fantastic source of the micronutrients that are needed for optimal growth. Plants fed on compost tend to be healthier, tastier and better looking. So how is one to get the benefits of compost coupled with the benefits of liquid fertilizers? Quite simply, make tea.

Are You A Bonsai Master? Learn How To Grow Your Own Bonsai Tree

You may have thought that growing a Bonsai tree should be left to a professional who specializes in growing miniature trees? While it is true that the art of Bonsai is a hobby where you are constantly learning and developing new skills the fact that anyone can grow a Bonsai tree may surprise you.