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Organic Compost
Organic compost is a redundant term. Compost is the decayed results of organic matter and is by its very nature organic. What is important to the organic gardener is the possibility of additives to the compost itself or to the...
Compost Tea
Compost tea allows the organic gardener to give his or her plants a great boost in growth. Plants get the majority of their food through their roots and always in a liquid form. Those dry compounds people use for fertilizers and for...
Compost Maker
Compost makers are where you find them. This rather facetious statement refers both to the people who make compost and the methods they use to do so. People who compost can be thought of in three general categories, although they...
Compost - The Big Feast for the Garden
A quick look at a bag of commercial fertilizer, either organic or chemical, will reveal a number made up of three smaller numbers separated by dashes, something like 2-2-2 or 6-12-12. The first is the percentage of nitrogen, the...
Compost Pile - Water Saver for All
One of the difficulties facing us today is the growing lack of water. It is not certain 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...
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...
Compost Bins - Make Your Own
The best compost is fast compost. In other words compost that has gone through the fast composting system and has pasteurized the weed seeds and killed many of the plant roots that might survive the long term cool composting that...
Compost Tumbler
Compost tumblers can speed up and eliminate at least part of the harder work of fast or "hot" composting. The microorganisms that do the actual composting work can be considered the livestock of the compost ranch. Like all living...
Making Compost Piles - You Can Use the Heat
Making compost is either the easiest work or some of the hardest you might do. One school of thought is simply to build a pile in the back yard and take the finished material from the bottom while adding extra to the top. Since you...
How to Make Compost
How to make compost is a central part of good gardening. Compost acts as a soil amendment loosening clay soil and allowing sandy soil to hold moisture while increasing fertility. It seems to have an influence on plant growth that is...
Worm Compost
Worm compost or also called vermicompost, vermicast, worm castings, worm humus or worm manure is an effective and effective source of nutrients for the garden. Making your own can be a rewarding form of recycling and composting and...
Compost Pile
Compost piles may be planned or they may just happen. In one very real sense the forest floor is a compost pile. Dig below the top half inch or so and you find compost formed and forming. What we think of as the compost pile is in...
Building a Compost Bin - The Number Three
Building a compost bin is as easy or as complicated as you would like to make it. In fact the simplest bin is none at all. Just pile up organic matter and let it rot. If if sits for a couple of years it should be finished compost. A...
Fall Compost - Why Move it Away From the Garden?
Fall is a great time for composting but not many gardeners do it. In the let down after the work of final harvest, it seems that all the energy left goes into putting the material in the compost bin and forgetting it until spring....
Composting - From Kitchen to Garden
Many people wonder about composting when they start to get serious about gardening. After all, a liberal addition of compost can change the soil around the plants, the very foundation of the garden. Wet soil can be made looser and...