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3 Advantages and 4 Benefits of Worm Composting
Worm composting produces compost rich in nutrients, cuts down on waste in the garbage can, and produces red wiggler worms.
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Building a Worm Compost Bin
How to build a worm compost bin. Red wiggler worms eat their body weight or more each day, and create rich worm castings for the garden.
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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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Indoor Composting: You Can Still Compost in Winter
Indoor composting is clean, odorless and easy, so why put your composting activities on hold for the winter?
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Worm Composting
Ideal for apartment and condo living, worm composting provides all of the garbage reduction benefits of standard composting, but in a smaller package.
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Worm Composting
How to worm compost. This is one of the easiest ways to compost and can be done anywhere.
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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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Feeding Red Wiggler Worms
Setting up a worm bin is easy enough. This article seeks to answer questions related to composting worm feeding and care after the bin is set up.
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How To Maintain a Worm Composter
Taking care of a worm bin is an easy job, but it does require a bit of work. Here are a few worm composting tips and guidelines to help out with the process.
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A Note From the Compostmaster General
Don't throw away those kitchen scraps! Turn them into a valuable soil amendment instead.
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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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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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How to Build a Worm Tower
Worm compost is a valuable additive to the organic garden. Building a worm bin is one way to harvest compost. An easier way to obtain worm castings is via a worm tower.
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Maintaining a Worm Compost
A worm compost is an intensive way to make soil, but it's an excellent tool for small space gardening. Here are some tips for a successful worm compost.
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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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There's Always Room for Worms
Think you have no space to compost? All you need are some red wigglers.
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Troubleshooting Problems in Worm Composting Bins
Composting worms do need moisture, but too much can kill. Overly wet bins can also foster pest insect outbreaks. Give worms adequate moisture, but not too much.
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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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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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Worm Composting
Worms eat and recycle your garbage into important nutrition for your plants. They can do so right in your kitchen. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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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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Ban Plastic Bags – Alternatives to Polyethylene
Responsible, environmentally aware people prefer not to use polyethylene bags in the home, but what alternatives to plastic bags are available for consumers?
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Composting Lesson Plans
Celebrate spring with composting in this hands-on garden activity that brings reading, writing, and science curricula together for elementary school students.
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Organic Edible Gardening With Kids
Even the most reluctant child may eat his broccoli when he commands the organic growing process from soil to table.
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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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Thanksgiving Feast for Worms!
Worm composting, also called vermiculture, is an excellent way to compost year round. It is especially wonderful for those of us in colder regions who don't want to brave the elements to take the kitchen waste to the compost pile. Learn how to use earth worms to reduce kitchen waste. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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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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Coping With a Garbage Strike
Even if you are not living in an area that has a garbage strike, having a contingency plan for disposing your garbage is a good idea.
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Garbage Strike Coping Techniques
Part 2 of a two-part series on waste reduction and elimination during a garbage strike.
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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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Three Easy Tips for Productive Composting
Learn three methods that will speed up the rate at which your compost pile generates viable compost. This article details how to compost effectively.
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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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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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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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Cross-Curriculum Flower Activities
Spring gardening lesson plans inspire hands-on, kinesthetic science, art, and social studies learning for elementary students.
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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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Ho-Ho...O! Organic Gardening Gifts and Tips for the Holiday Season
A concise gift guide for the organic gardener on your holiday shopping list.
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Horticultural Therapy in your Garden
Horticultural Therapy is a multidisciplinary program of study involving fields such as horticulture, psychology, landscape architecture, gerontology and sociology.
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Host an Organic Home and Garden Party
Hosting an organic garden party is a way to share the rewards of organic gardening methods with others. Invitations, food, and décor illustrate the garden party theme.
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How to Shrink Your Paper Footprint
Digital technology was supposed to usher in the paperless era, but we're still using millions of tons of paper each year.
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Selva Negra Cloud Forest Reserve
Tucked away in the cloud forest north of Matagalpa, this idyllic environment should be on every traveler's itinerary for it's environmental and social initiatives.
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April Showers for Florida
April is the perfect time of year to establish new lawns, garden beds and enhance your Florida landscape. Find out what gardeners need to know about irrigating properly, drought-tolerant plants and having healthier yards.
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Organic Gardening Shortcuts
Implement one of 26 A to Z organic gardening tips to increase yields, fight garden pests and diseases, and beautify your landscape.
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Attracting Beneficial Insects
Organic gardeners need to attract beneficial insects to control the pest bugs commonly found in flower and vegetable gardens. I explain which insects control which pests and how to attract them.
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In Harmony with Nature
Gardening with nature should be on the agenda of all gardeners. High summer brings problems of drought, aphids, fungal disease that can all affect our plants performance. I look at how nature can help us to help ourselves combat some of the problems we gardeners face.
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The RHS comes north
The Royal Horticultural Society comes to the north-west of England. With so many town and urban gardeners close by, including myself, this was an event not to miss.
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