Category: Composting

Composting is a great way to keep your food scraps from ending up in a landfill while delivering nutrient-rich soil in return. Sounds great, but if you’ve ever tried it, you know it can be confusing trying to figure out how to do it the right way. Source

I have been buying in a lot of low grade compost for use in the gardens, and have wondered how it might be amended. So I filled a load of large grow bags with this compost, amended it in a variety of different ways, and grew a crop of potatoes. The yield of potatoes was…

Time to turn the hot compost pile! I check the temperature of my compost pile and share how to turn a hot compost pile (and also add water) so it will break down faster into black gold to feed your garden. My new book: Organic Gardening for Everyone: Homegrown Vegetables Made Easy – order your…

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Speed of decomposition. heap heat and eventual results can vary a lot! See a range of possibilities for making compost. This is May and already there is a decent amount of new growth. I show you how we add it to heaps of varied types and dimensions here. A key tip is to balance green…

Composting becomes more widespread and accessible all the time, keeping millions of tons of food waste from ending up in landfills every year. But there is one quirk of some composting programs that can be a little annoying: they don’t accept meat scraps. But why? And are there ways to overcome this limitation? SciShow would…

Make better compost when you understand how to balance the ingredients of your heap. Have fun trying different combinations, with more success once you know the qualities of each material. Summer sees plenty of green matter and I show the ways to balance this with brown additions to your heap. ‘Green and brown’ are simpler…

University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Marjorie Peronto discusses the benefits and best methods of worm composting. Source

You can make great compost. See three sizes and types of bins or bays, with and without a roof. The smallest of these three does not get hot, rarely above 40C 104F, but still makes nice compost. 00:00 Welcome to Homeacres 00:46 Different types of compost bays or bins 03:23 Looking at the compost in…

This presentation video provides information about composting including the benifits of its use, how to use it in your yard or garden as well as a little compost history. The Wisconsin Master Composter program provides training across Wisconsin to teach people how they can begin to compost right in their own back yard​​ Source