Category: Composting

The Sanitation Department’s curbside composting program in Queens began Monday. The program is available to all residents of the borough. Sanitation will pick up compost on the same day as recycling. Subscribe to FOX 5 NY: https://www.youtube.com/fox5ny?sub_confirmation=1 Watch FOX 5 NY Live: https://www.fox5ny.com/live FOX 5 NY delivers breaking news, live events, investigations, politics, entertainment, business…

Learn how we harvest our compost at the Gardenerd Test Garden, with tools you can use for your own compost pile. Compost is essential for a healthy organic garden, and an important ingredient in seasonal bed prep. Read the full blog with additional resources here: http://bit.ly/2KCO59W Whether you’re new to gardening or a garden nerd…

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares his opionions on 12 Compost Tublers and lets you know the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY about tubling composters. In this episode, john takes you on a tour of his compost alley – The alley way of his urban home that is home to 12 popular tumbling composters and shares…

Compost is the backbone of your soil. It adds nutrients to your soil and creates optimal soil structure to grow healthy plants. You need at least two bins which are 1x1x1 metre in dimension. Only by creating a pile to a metre high will it reach 70 degrees to cook the compost. You need to…

Compost is a superb mulch for no dig beds, an inch or so / 2.5cm annually, for two crops. The compost feeds soil organisms, whose activity and excretions improve soil structure, and provide nutrition for plants. 00:00 Intro 00:25 How to assemble the pallets, very quick and easy 6:45 mid April to end of May…

I’ve long been a HUGE fan of Charles Dowding. A rainy Saturday morning with a cup of hot coffee and Charles’ soothing voice sharing his latest No Till and Compost gardening techniques? Count me in! As a result of the influence from Charles, I started using tons of compost in my beds. And this season,…

Reviewing the Subpod, the composting product I get the MOST questions about. It took me a while to get this review together because I wanted to put the system through its paces, and as you’ll see, there were some design challenges I faced with the larger model. The Subpod Mini is my favorite version of…

Making compost in a 330L / 75 gallon Dalek from mid-April to end July, and how to access it. It’s dry around the edge and nice in the middle. Dry also on top from leafy additions being drier than usual, in a summer heatwave. Usually these containers hold almost too much moisture. However this summer’s…

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the #1 reason that he sees why your compost pile is not composting or heating up. Having too much moisture and/or having bugs in your compost pile is another sign it is having problems. You will discover the top reason for having problems with your compost pile and how…

See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Composting needs a balance of ‘greens’ and ‘browns’. Here’s what that means. #shorts Source