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Some Fun Books for Children
Larraine Roulston has a unique storytelling ability. She uses this ability to communicate important gardening information to children.
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Start a Vermicomposting Bin
Teach your children about going green by showing them how nature recycles food scraps. Vermiposting uses worms to make compost, and it's easy, odorless, and fascinating.
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Vermicomposting to Reduce Holiday Food Waste
More holiday cooking means more food scraps: What to do with all the organic waste if composting or green bins are not an option? Suite 101 looks at vermicomposting.
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Three Ways to Harvest Red Worms
Buying an expensive machine is not usually an option for home-based composters. The best way to separate worms and compost is to convince the worms to do it themselves.
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Using Worms to Compost Waste
The finished product of vermicomposting is a nutrient-rich soil mixture that acts like rocket fuel to plants.
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Vermiculture – How to Compost with Worms
Vermicomposting, or vermiculture, is an easy and convenient way for every person to get involved with organic gardening and saving trash from the landfill.
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Gift Ideas for Organic Gardeners
Organic gardeners are a special breed. When birthdays and holidays come around, nothing makes them happier than a gift bag of dried manure. Here are some more ideas.
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Cheap and Easy Worm Compost Bin
A simple, quick way to compost kitchen scraps is to do it with worms. Vermicomposting also creates worm castings, one of the best organic soil amendments.
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Vermiculture
Vermiculture or worm farming is getting increasingly more popular with permaculturalists and eco-concious people of the world. Worms can literally save the earth!
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Earthworms Spread by Human Activity
Each earthworm species is adapted to its natural environment and can cause problems when it is introduced elsewhere.
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How to Start Worm Composting
Worm composting is a great way for anyone with limited space to turn kitchen waste into compost for the garden or houseplants.
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Making a Worm Composting System
Learn how to construct and run your own wormery to recycle your kitchen waste cheaply, cleanly and efficiently whilst getting some of the best fertiliser available!
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The Earth Moved: Amy Stewart
Earthworms live beneath our feet, we seldom think about them. However, as Amy Stewart enlightens us in her book 'The Earth Moved' earthworms are very important.
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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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Using Worm Castings in the Garden
Worm castings (a.k.a. worm poop or vermicompost), are a high nitrogen source of organic matter good for growing vegetables and flowers in the ground or in pots.
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How Worms Improve Soil in the Vegetable Garden
Earthworms and redworms amend garden soil by offering nutritional value and good tilth. Both of these ingredients produce healthy and delicious vegetables.
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The Organic Diaper
In the great diaper debate there are two well known contenders: cloth and disposable. A third less known challenger, the biodegradable disposable, has added a new twist.
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There's Always Room for Worms
Think you have no space to compost? All you need are some red wigglers.
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Recycle Leftovers into Fertilizer
Composting with worms is an excellent way of reducing kitchen scraps and waste - less rubbish for the dustbin, fewer smelly bins and bags, and free fertilizer.
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Permaculture Gardening
A description of permaculture gardening, principals and valid reasons for its development. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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Ecological and "Green" Gift Ideas
If you're buying a gift for a greenie, or just trying to nudge a friend into ecological living, read these tips.
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How to Treat Common Compost Problems
Turn smelly compost bins and cold compost piles into sources of rich organic humus for the garden with these composting tips.
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Worm Composting Versus the Compost Pile
Which type of composting is best, worm composting or traditional composting? Is there any difference in the compost? Which is easier?
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It’s Earth Day: Bring On The Worms!
Earth Day from the bottom up -- Earth worms, vermiculture and vermicompost in the garden, at home and at school. Lots of useful links and in-depth facts PLUS how to use a worm bin. From the Cottage Garden.
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October Gardening In The Low Desert
What to do on Oct. in the low desert garden.
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Gifts for Flower Gardeners
Whether you need a holiday gift or a birthday gift or a thinking of you gift, here are ideas for the perfect gardening present for the special gardener on your list.
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Compost Happens!
Still not composting like you should? Ready to start composting anew this spring? Get the information you need to start out right -- what to use and how to do it, so you can make great compost for your garden now! The perfect way to celebrate Earth Day!
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Gardening Books for Holiday Gifts
When it comes to choosing gifts for gardeners, the local bookstore can provide one-stop shopping. For them, gardening books and ones on related subjects are a perfect choice.
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Worms under the sink
Red wrigglers and green thumbs: this holiday season decorate beneath the kitchen sink with a worm composter to keep a steady supply of organic food for your house plants and spring garden.
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Down to Earth
With late summer now upon us and early autumn not that far away, we look forward to another season and take a look at the soil beneath our feet. What it really is, how to improve it and look after it.
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