Category: Composting

Have Stay at Home orders made it difficult for you to compost? In this One Small Step, Lucy explores 3 ways to compost at home. » Subscribe to NowThis Future: https://go.nowth.is/Future_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis Because of budget…

1 Made from garden wastes at high temperatures up to 80C 176F. 2 Mushroom compost from specialist compost makers, it’s ‘spent for mushrooms’ and excellent for soil. 3 Animal manure, often comes with bedding of variable origin, I show you chipped wood. I pay from £40 to £60 per tonne delivered in a two tonne…

One of the most effective ways of feeding your plants is with liquid fertiliser. Nutrients are easily absorbed through the roots and leaves when you apply a liquid fertiliser. Our summertime recipe is made up of comfrey, stinging nettles and cleavers (bidibidi). This combination is high in potassium and low on nitrogen which is exactly…

Reducing the amount of plant waste through composting can extend the life of landfills and produce a healthy supplement to your garden without the need for fertilizers. TCEQ’s Take Care of Texas program presents Travis County Master Gardner Patricia Mokry, who explains various simple ways individuals can begin to compost. Source

Our friend Elliot thought we should do an episode about composting… so we did! Learn all about how you can turn certain types of trash into nutrient packed soil you can use in the garden! ———- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso…

One of the absolute best things to add to our garden beds is at your finger tips AND completely free: Hot Compost. However, without a step-by-step guide it can take months and multiple attempts to get it right. In this video, we consolidate all of our 18 months of learnings into one step-by-step guide to…

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Bone meal, bat guano, gypsum…what ARE all of these organic fertilizers and how do you actually know WHICH to use, and HOW to use them? Enjoy this long-overdue organic fertilizer breakdown video. SPONSOR: Espoma Organic Espoma Organic has been organic from the start and makes absolutely epic potting mixes, and organic fertilizers. They make awesome…

CBS2’s Jessica Moore has the latest on the new proposal focused on having New York City businesses compost to cut down on food waste. Source

In Today’s episode, we will discuss on Composting types and basic concepts and requirements of a compost bin whether for home composting to recycle your kitchen waste or for large scale composting in farming. TIMESTAMPS BELOW: WHAT IS COMPOSTING? 0:28 WHY SHOULD YOU COMPOST? 0:44 TYPES OF COMPOSTING: 1:13 AEROBIC COMPOSTING: 1:27 ANAEROBIC COMPOSTING: 1:53…