Here's a tip for all of you out there trying to secretly grow marijuana in your basement. Having three pallets of compost delivered to your apartment building might give you away. I'm not making this up. Actual drug dealers who were growing cannibus in an apartment had 360 bags of compost delivered to the site. That caused the landlord and police to get a little suspicious. It makes me proud to know that the benefits of compost are getting to be so well known that even the shady... Read Full Story
Making Compost Is Not Hard There, that's my answer. Let me explain why I don't think that making compost is hard at all. Here's a picture of one of my compost bins from last fall. It's probably around November or December. Do you see that it's filled to the top? Now here's the same compost bin from about a week ago. Do you see how all of those leaves, grass clippings, garden and kitchen waste cooked down to less than half the size of the original pile? Now here's where I... Read Full Story
Holy cow, I have figs! I'm shocked because I only bought the fig tree this season. I guess I'm used to fruit bushes and trees not doing anything for years. My blackberries took three years to produce fruit and my climbing hydrangea is on like it's 5th year without any signs of flowers. The can learn something from this fig tree.
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Image via Wikipedia Compost never ceases to amaze me. It looks like scientists have discovered that a bug that's commonly found in compost can be used to help the biofuel making process become more efficient. Normally corn or sugar cane is broken down by yeast, into small forms of sugar that can be fermented when making traditional ethanol. But with the help of this compost bug, they believe that they'll be able to use grass, forest waste and other non-food items and do it more... Read Full Story
Have any of you bloggers out there ever sat down and really gone through your traffic logs? I'm not talking about your main traffic sources, I'm more interested in the stuff way at the bottom of the stats. I've found some interesting search phrases in my logs that make me wonder what kind of loony people are using Google. Seriously, I don't know what's weirder, that Google ranks me high for "Pictures of Daffy Duck in a Pot" or that someone was searching for it. And recently I posted... Read Full Story
"Compost is the silver bullet that may allow Denver and the Democratic National Convention Committee to slash DNC trash to just 15 percent of the waste stream, their stated goal."Source: Rocky Mountain News DNC Composting Factoids: - A1 Organics collected the DNC waste to be turned into compost - They used special cups from cornstarch that could be composted - Cardboard and sandwich boxes were composted - A1 uses a special predatory wasp to control flies in their compost piles Only 15% of... Read Full Story
Lately I've been moaning and groaning about how my summer garden has done so poorly. Well I may have to retract all that moaning and groaning because it looks like I may actually get some tomatoes after all. In the spring, I started my usual blend of hybrid and heirloom tomatoes from seed with high hopes. Then tragedy stuck! Well not really but that does sound more exciting than saying, I got too busy and made a conscious effort to cut way back on my vegetable garden. Unfortunately... Read Full Story
One the best things I did this year was hide my vegetable garden. It's still located in the same place and you can still see it but it's not as noticeable when your sitting by the pool. There's nothing wrong with seeing a vegetable garden while you're swimming. The problem is that when you can see the garden, you can see that it needs some weeding. And who wants to think about weeding when your goofing off with your kids in the pool. Someday, I'd like to surround the garden with a... Read Full Story
Hey does anyone have one of these things? Being a big fan of compost and gadgets, it looks like it's right up my alley. It's priced way too high but it's still looks pretty cool in an AeroGarden sort of way. Please leave a comment if you have any experience with the NatureMill Automatic Composter
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