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Make or Build a Compost Bin
You can make or build a rudimentary compost bin from cheap or free materials. No carpentry skills are required.
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Tumbler Compost Bin
Using a compost bin or compost tumbler is a big help in making compost. It averages 4-6 weeks in a tumbler compost bin, while a compost pile might take 1 year.
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Alternative Ways to Make Compost
This article will present alternative methods of composting for those who have limited space or neighborhood restrictions against composting.
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Garden Cover-Ups
Ideas to turn a problem area into an asset.
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How to Compost Your Garden, Yard & Kitchen Waste
Hesitant to start composting because you fear it will be a smelly, messy inconvenience? Read on. A compost bin can reduce your garbage bill and enrich your garden!
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Make Compost Without a Bin
Compost is a vital element in the organic garden, so you mustn't let the absence of a bin stop you from harvesting black gold.
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Garden Compost to Produce Blooming Gardens
Well balanced compost helps to produce a lush garden while home produced compost is good for the environment. A well designed compost bin produces eco-friendly mulch.
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Composting the Easy Way
Build a compost bin and learn from an expert, just how easy it can be to have rich compost for your garden, houseplants and starts.
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Unusual Items to Add to Compost
Add unusual or unconventional ingredients to your compost, and increase your humus production while keeping waste out of the landfill.
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Composting Hints
Composting need not be difficult nor make the organic gardener a neighbourhood pariah. Most problems can be overcome quite simply.
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Ten Tools for Vegetable Gardeners
While it may be tempting to try out all kinds of trendy and fancy gardening tools, the vegetable gardener needs only a few dependable pieces of equipment.
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Waterwise Healthy Lawns
Water-conscious gardeners can conserve that precious resource and still have a green, healthy lawn even though neighbors sometimes look askance at water-wise lawns.
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Coffee in the Organic Garden
Coffee grounds are a free and nutrient dense source of material in the organic garden. Use them as a compost amendment or directly in the garden as a soil enhancer.
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Composting Basics
Composting is a quick and easy way to make use of yard waste, such as leaves and twigs, grass clippings, and kitchen waste.
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How to Grow an Easy Vegetable Garden
Growing your own fresh delicious vegetables doesn't have to be a daunting task. Here are some tips for starting small but yielding big as a novice gardener.
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Vermiculture and Worm Composting
Vermicomposting (Worm Composting) saves money, recycles, and benefits the earth. Worm castings are natural fertilizer. E-Z vermiculture with this basic worm bin plan.
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Winter Garden Projects, Part Two: Make a Compost Sifter/Dryer
This compost sifter/drying screener is a highly recommended, useful garden accessory. Make it yourself and save money.
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Wintertime Tasks for the Gardener
Wintertime should be anything but a slow time for the gardener. While you're waiting for spring blooms, here are two wintertime tasks that'll get your garden ready for spring. Learn the best ways to store seeds and tender perennials and discover the benefits of composting.
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5 Veggies with Which to Start an Organic Garden
So, you want to start your own vegetable garden, using the organic method. Some plants respond very well, others do not. These top five are the easiest of the lot.
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Composting for A Desert Garden
Yard waste makes up as high as 30 percent of the solid waste of most municipalities in North America. Food waste makes up another nine percent. Composting uses this mater
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Gifts for Organic Gardeners
Pick the best tools, supplies, and products for organic gardeners at gift-giving time to make organic gardening easy and enjoyable.
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Recycling in the Vegetable Garden
When gardeners reclaim materials for use the vegetable garden, they create an opportunity to talk about environmental awareness.
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SAVE THE VEGETABLES!
So what do you do with those left-over vegetables - cooked or uncooked? Well certainly not throw them away, unless of course you intend to throw them in the compost bin. Linda suggests alternatives.
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Summer in the Flower Garden
Continue caring for your annual and perennial flower gardens in the summer months to ensure a continuous succession of blooms until first frost.
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Weed Salads from My Garden
Weeds are the basis of herbalism. While supplying the raw material for delicious salads, they may well help to protect us from disease.
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Choices, Weeds, and Gardener's Respect
Treating the plants in your garden with respect, even when you've decided they've got to go.
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Recycling in Your Center? See how it can be done
Find some interesting and useful ideas on how daycare centers recycle.
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Money Saving Methods, Materials, or Projects
Some ideas and questions about different uses for household products and different ways to do projects in order to save money.
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Compost in the Organic Garden
Compost enriches your garden soil, providing nutrients the organic way. You also retard moisture loss and reduce the strain on landfills.
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Compost: Organic Fertilizer
Compost is an organic fertilizer and mulch. Learn how to make organic fertilizer in a compost pile and benefits of compost as organic fertilizer and mulch.
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Composting is Beautiful- Now Make it Easy!
A build it yourself compost system for serious gardeners. Simple and flexible instructions for a large 3 bin style composter, along with basic tips for practical use.
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Composting Made Easy
Recycling is a hot topic and everyone's in on the act but what of left-over food scraps? Find out what happens organic waste and how it can be recycled.
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Mother Earth's Best Friend
This is a quick introduction and primer to building your own compost pile for your garden. It lists the general idea and some tips on getting it started and where to place it.
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Raised Bed Gardening II
In Raised Bed Gardening Part II, I explain how to easily create a raised garden bed, a raised garden bed frame, and a cold frame. Raised bed gardening can be easy!
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Waste To Wealth
One person's garbage, is another's gold.
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What Is Aeration?
Aeration is a process of introducing oxygen into a variety of substances, including soil.
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Winter Tasks in the Flower Garden
Don't stop caring for your roses, bulbs, and perennials when the first snow flies. They require your occasional presence to ensure a glorious spring performance.
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10 Community Conservation Ideas
By reaching out to neighbors and organizing community events, we can help protect our environment and each other.
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20 Ways to Go Green
Read about how to help conserve energy, reduce waste and use non toxic alternatives to cleaners and pesticides.
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Black Walnut Toxicity
Organic gardeners that host black walnut trees on their property must protect garden plants from the toxic juglone emitted by the trees' hulls, roots, and leaves.
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Caring for a Wildflower Meadow
Organic gardeners can plant wildflower meadows as a low maintenance lawn alternative. However, wildflowers need a modicum of care to improve blooming and prevent weeds.
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Coffee Grounds For Your Garden
The simple idea of recycling spent coffee grounds back to the earth stimulates green thumbs to join the java jolt and brew compost in gardens across North America.
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