Raised Garden Beds
My raised garden beds, my 2015 project, are, once again, at the top of my mind. This morning I went out into the garden and felt Spring was actually here. Warm, still and sunny...
Category: garden composting
Leaf Mould – It’s Free!
Once again, autumn is here and the wild winds are whipping up the trees, forcing the leaves to make a break for it! Good news for those of us who find a pile of...
Composting Straw
– a useful composting ingredient. If you are looking for some variety in the compost ingredients for your bin or pile and if you can lay your hands on some composting straw, you...
About Manure – Awesome Stuff
“Manure, the dung and urine of animals, is the most important single ingredient in the compost heap. It is difficult, although not impossible, to make a good compost pile without it.” The Rodale Book...
Using Compost – Your Reward for Your Efforts
So – when your first load of compost is ‘done’, your first bin of Bokashi, pickled or when your worms have done their duty – when you have a pile of lovely, cool, dark...
Composting Tips – How To Set Up Your Composting Project for Success
There are lists of composting tips everywhere you look and here is no exception. This short list, however, may be the best of all, as planning your project carefully should ensure that you are...
How to Breathe Life This Spring into your Tired Garden Soil. (Courtesy of Old World Garden Farms)
Making compost for improving the quality of garden soil is really what composters who garden are all about. If you do not garden, but are still a compost-person, likely you are motivated by wider...
It’s Leaf Mould Season!
Fiery scarlet and orange berries are beginning to be visible through the leaves on the bushes lining the roads. The leaves on the chestnut trees are beginning to turn brown and there is a...
Try Trench Composting for Fabulous Vegetables
Trench Composting – soil incorporation – an overview Trench composting (sometimes called pit composting) is just what it says. You dig a trench, or a pit, add a layer of your raw materials, cover them...
Sheet a.k.a. Lasagna Composting
Sheet composting is trouble-free and useful if you have plenty of space available. Sheet composting is an alternative to building a pile, if you do not like the idea of having an untidy heap...