Articles tagged “Composting Tips”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

No Yard? Here's How You Can Still Make and Use Compost By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jan 19 2011 Are you an apartment-dweller who wishes you could reduce your food waste? Consider trying one or all of these ideas to reduce your total food waste to almost zero. + READ MORE

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening, Lesson 5: Lazy Composting By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 9 2010 If you over-think it, composting can get pretty complicated. I chose not to do that - here's how I simplified matters so you can too. + READ MORE

Composting: It's Easy, Awesome for the Environment, and Doesn't Have to Be Smelly By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Apr 20 2010 There are so many earth- and wallet-friendly reasons to compost, it really doesn't make sense not to. + READ MORE

Reuse These 3 Items for Indoor Seed Starting By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Feb 10 2010 Here are three free ideas for seed starting pots that are made from items destined for the trash or recycling bin. As an added bonus: you plant the pots along with the plants, so this is a zero-waste idea. + READ MORE

Make a No-Dig, Little-Effort Garden Bed Now, Plant Easily in the Spring By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Oct 12 2009 Hate the idea of removing sod and double-digging to make a new garden bed? Forget it! Make a no-dig garden bed this fall, and enjoy easy planting in the spring. + READ MORE

How to Cure a Stinky Compost System By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Sep 21 2009 One of the main fears for people who haven't jumped on the composting band wagon is the bad smells often associated with compost bins. But the fact of the matter is that a stinky compost bin is super easy to avoid. + READ MORE

Tomatoes Love Urine: 4x increase in Yield! By Sami Grover IN Home & Garden Sep 18 2009 Tomatoes fertilized with urine can show a four-fold increase in yield. And with a little common sense - it's completely safe. Peeing in the compost does make sense after all. + READ MORE

Food Scrap Smoothies and Other Ways to Skip the Landfill Without Composting By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 17 2009 You have plenty of food scraps, but no way to compost them? Here's how to avoid sending those food scraps to the landfill. + READ MORE

DIY Biochar: A Low Tech (Green?) Experiment By Sami Grover IN Home & Garden Sep 17 2009 Adding charcoal to your compost heap can stop odors and boost plant growth - but could it also save the planet? + READ MORE

Does it Matter if I Compost? By Michael Graham Richard IN Home & Garden Sep 14 2009 Why should I compost if food is going to biodegrade at the landfill anyway? That's a question often asked, but not often answered. Today we answer it. + READ MORE

Easy Indoor Composting: Bokashi + Worm Bin By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 3 2009 Here is an easy way to compost all of your food scraps indoors, without overburdening your worm bin. + READ MORE

How to Make Hot Compost By Sami Grover IN Home & Garden Sep 2 2009 Composting can be as easy or as time consuming as you want. But a few simple tips can help build a hot, fast heap that will be steaming up your backyard well into the Fall. + READ MORE

Are You a Composting Pro? (Quiz) By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Aug 27 2009 Composting is one of the most important ways that you can reduce waste in your household, but do you know how it works? Test your knowledge in our quiz: Are You a Composting Pro? + READ MORE

What's Wrong With My Worm Bin? By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Aug 25 2009 Here are some of the most common worm bin problems, and how to solve them. + READ MORE

75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You Couldn't By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jul 30 2009 The basics of composting are simple. Most people know they can compost fruit and vegetable peels, leaves, and grass clippings. But what about that tea bag you used this morning? Or the fur that collects in the brush when you groom your cat? + READ MORE

Steve Thomas Experiments with a Composting Toilet By Steve Thomas IN Home & Garden Jul 24 2009 The Moon Brothers were young. They were enthusiastic and they were committed to building the greenest house in all of Portland, in all of Oregon, in all of the USA. They were really cool guys.. + READ MORE

No Compost Required: Instantly Fertilize Plants With These 3 Kitchen Scraps By Nicole Willner IN Home & Garden May 20 2009 We all know compost, or "black gold" as some like to call it, is an ideal mate to your plant soil. Composting also reduces the amount of trash volume you send to landfills, and consequently the amount of harmful methane emissions released in to our atmosphere. But not everyone has the space or sheer willingness to have an outdoor compost pile or worm bin. If you want to reap the benefits of this natural fertilizer but don?t have the patience or compost heap, you can immediately use these three foods scraps to nourish potted or garden spoil and tremendously improve plant growth. + READ MORE

7 Reasons to Compost By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Mar 19 2009 You may be skeptical about composting. The skepticism sounds healthy to me. Why would anyone want a big pile of rotting food in their yard or home? It doesn't sound hygienic, and it doesn't sound fun. But composting is good for everyone. Hopefully, these seven reasons can dismiss that skepticism. + READ MORE

Get Free Container Garden Soil By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Home & Garden Mar 18 2009 If you're creating a container garden, you may have noticed one particularly important piece of the puzzle can be hard to come by—the dirt! + READ MORE

How to Build a Worm Composting Bin By Josh Peterson IN Food & Health Mar 10 2009 Composting is a great way to reduce methane and keep old food out of our landfills. The compost is great for fertilizing gardens, flowers or anything else you may be trying to grow. And if you don't want to grow anything, then just throw your compost under a bush or something, and you'll have done that bush and the world a favor. + READ MORE