Compost it or Lose itDon't cart your garden greens to the curb each week when you could be turning them into free fertilizer and an amazing soil ammendment. Composting your garden and kitchen scraps is good for your garden and good for the planet. Annually, composters keep 529 lbs. of green waste out of our landfills. If that isn’t enough, compost improves soil structure and water holding capacity, repairs damaged soil, increases earthworm activity, suppresses disease and keeps plants healthier. It is also one of the best ways to return to the earth what we have taken out, insuring the success of future harvests. Making compost couldn’t be easier. Read more... Comments (1)
From Household Trash to Garden ToolsIf you leave your grass clippings on the lawn and send your kitchen scraps and garden·waste to the worm bin or compost pile you are diverting approx. 529 lbs. of waste out of landfills annually. You can congratulate yourself on being part of the solution to our·over burdened landfills.· But what about some of the other things that we throw away?· Is there something else we can do with the bottles,·cans and countless other things·that we throw away each day?· There are lots of secondary "garden uses" for many of the things we commonly throw out.· This list is by far not complete, and I would love to have tips from other gardeners on how to turn your household trash into garden treasures. Tips of the DayReuse your nursery flats to sift compost. Stack a few flats together. If the holes have different sizes place the tray with the smallest holes on top. Harvesting seeds is an easy way to cut the cost of gardening. Keep an eye open for dried seed pods and flower heads as well as over ripe fruit. This years seeds are next years harvest. |
