Garden Girl TV: Simple Easy Compost Bin

Patti, the Garden Girl, shows you a simple and easy way to make a compost bin for your organic lawn or garden.

In organic gardening do you need to add anything besides compost and can you add to much compost?

Question by Bill C: In organic gardening do you need to add anything besides compost and can you add to much compost?

Best answer:

Answer by sciencegravy
Organic gardening is just like any other gardening – except that you choose not to use inorganic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.

All those things are available in organic forms. Compost is a great organic fertilizer, but there are also tons of commercially produced organic fertilizers you can purchase.

What do you think? Answer below!

Organic Compost Gardening : Picking Grass & Weeds for Organic Compost

Weeds are an excellent material to use to create your own organic compost pile, while cleaning up your garden at the same time. Learn to select the right weeds and grass for your compost pile from aprofessional organic gardener in this free gardening video. Expert: Jeff Belli Bio: Jeff Belli heads his own business, Chi of Me, located in middle Tennessee. Coming from a family with a long tradition in gardening, Jeff is passionate about having a positive impact on Mother Earth. Filmmaker: Doug Craig

How to make compost – Making your own compost

www.howdini.com How to compost How to make compost How does your garden grow? A lot better if the soil is enriched with compost from your own compost pile. Scott Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening magazine, shows how to make and use compost. Keywords: how to compost how to make compost making compost making a compost pile
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The Complete Compost Gardening Guide: Banner batches, grow heaps, comforter compost, and other amazing techniques for saving time and money, and … most flavorful, nutritous vegetables ever.

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Barbara Pleasant and Deborah L. Martin turn the compost bin upside down with their liberating system of keeping compost heaps right in the garden, rather than in some dark corner behind the garage. The compost and the plants live together from the beginning in a nourishing, organic environment. The authors’ bountiful, compost-rich gardens require less digging, weeding, mulching, and even less planting. And here’s one of the best parts — no more backbreaking slogs from compost bin to garden. The authors even identify the plants that benefit most from compost and how the elements of a composted garden work together.

A natural Six-Way Compost Gardening System provides the ruling principles for successfully improving every garden with healthy compost. Readers will learn how to:

1. Choose labor-saving sites that keep gardens and compost piles as close to one another as possible.

2. Work with the compostable riches produced at home. Every yard and kitchen produces plenty of material — easily identified with at-a-glance charts — for a great start.

3. Help composting critters do their work by balancing ingredients, adding high-nitrogen meals when needed, and keeping the compost moist.

4. Reuse recycling bin items, such as large plastic buckets and cardboard boxes, as composting equipment.

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6. Customize composting to suit specific garden needs, always concentrating first on soil care.

Adhering to these guidelines, Pleasant and Martin bring readers on a thorough, informative tour of materials and innovative techniques, leading the way to an efficient and rewarding home gardening system. Their methods are sure to help gardeners turn average vegetable plots into rich incubators of healthy produce, bursting with fresh flavor, and flower beds into rich tapestries of bountiful blooms all season long.

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How to Plant a Vegetable Garden : How to Use Compost in Your Vegetable Garden

Learn how to use compost in your vegetable garden in this free online video guide to vegetable gardening. Expert: Scott Reil Contact: www.safelawns.org Bio: Scott Reil is an accredited nurseryman and longtime horticulturalist with over two decades of experience in the field. Scott is now working for www.safelawns.org. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Organic Gardening Fertilizer – Compost ? Danger in the Vegetable Garden

<b>The Pit Controversy</b>

Hello my wonderful gardening chums, it’s Beatrix Potts your, “Organic Gardening Enthusiast.”  First a word or two about our title. When you are given inaccurate and even false information about organic gardening fertilizer your organic vegetable garden may be in terrible danger. Bad information is just as dangerous as cutworms. We are here to set the record straight and give you the most reliable information   available.

<b>More Than Essential</b>

So, on with the show. Beatrix is here to tell you that organic fertilizer, a.k.a. organic gardening compost is the life’s blood of your organic vegetable garden. Organic gardening is incomplete without organic gardening compost.  This is not just an essential element of organic vegetable gardening it is probably the singular most important element. And it is the element that you can produce and control. Understanding organic garden fertilizer will allow you to understand how important the plant’s life is and it will help the soil, insects, and everything that our wonderful vegetables need to grow and thrive.

<b>OK, to Put in Your Compost</b>

Many of my gardening aficionados have written to me and asked, “Beatrix, what can I put into my
compost?” My dear, the answer is quite simple:

1. twigs, hay and straw
2. leaves, grass clippings
3. eggshells, many kitchen scraps
4. formerly fresh fruit,
5. teabags, coffee grounds,
6. and you always want a good mix of “Greens and Browns.”

<b>Greens and Browns in your Compost</b>

Mr. Melvin Potts, our wonderful spouse and “Mr. Organic Gardening Compost Man,” has reminded yours truly to give a plug for the often neglected “Browns.” They are defined as plant matter that was formerly green and has dried and become desiccated and is now as its name implies, Brown. Dried leaves, plants, and dried grass clippings are excellent sources of brown material for your organic gardening compost.

<b>Rule #1</b>

Please remember our Rule #1, anything that comes out of the ground can go back into your compost and eventually back into the ground. And you know of course to never add meat, bones or items with oils, and never ever do we include dog or cat feces.

All of these things will be consumed by microorganisms, insects, nematodes and what Beatrix likes to refer to as the ‘most uncommon earthworm.’

These are the beasties that inhabit your organic compost and they will voraciously consume the vegetable matter and turn it into the nutrients that our plants need to grow.

We always refer to the worms in our garden as, ‘most uncommon.’ You see my dears the earthworms in our garden are the very essence of organic gardening compost machines, and for that reason we refer to them as being ‘most uncommon.’

<b>NO PITS</b>

Some would have you believe that compost requires a pit. Beatrix is here to tell you that a “pit” is not entirely necessary. All you need is a flat space of ground where you can put all of your compost materials, this space needs to be where you can provide water, turn the compost and provide a most essential ingredient, air.  You will then eventually put your compost through a screen to get rid of any sticks or extraneous matter.

<b>The Most Efficient Way</b>

It is an absolute fallacy that you need to dig a deep hole for your organic compost. You don’t need some kind of a “pit” to begin the exciting adventure that is making organic gardening compost. What you need is simply a small flat piece of ground to put your compost material on top of.  This is probably the singular and most efficient way to begin making the organic gardening compost that will make your vegetable garden thrive and be absolutely wonderful.

Well, your faithful servant and gardening buddy, Beatrix Potter the “Organic Gardening Enthusiast”  has, unfortunately run out of space, much to your chagrin. In the next volume of, “Danger in the Vegetable Garden” we will be taking a look at, “Garden Tools-Dangerous Instruments that Maim or a Gardener’s Best Friend?”

If you want to read more about how Beatrix Potts, Your Organic Gardening Enthusiast can help you make the most wonderful compost, visit my blog, <a  rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link']);” href=”http://bpotts.org“>The Beatrix Potts Blog</a> and download our FREE Report Compost Secrets.

Until next time I wish you, “Happy Gardening.”  Your faithful servant and gardening buddy,

Beatrix Potts.

Build An Organic Compost Pile For Organic Gardening Using Houselhold Scraps

Learn the basics of garden composting. Create nutrient rich compost with organic ingredients that retain moisture for your garden from scraps and yard waste. Improve your soil organically using house compost and other natural organic gardening materials attracting earthworms and beneficial insects to your garden. Educational programming at HerbFest sponsored by and supports The Graham Johnson Cultural Arts Endowment, www.gjcae.org.

Organic Gardening the No Till Way Using Natural Waste And Yard Compost

video filmed at HerbFest, the longest running herb plant sale and herb festival in the US, showing the No till gardening method using organic materials by Dr. Milton Ganyard, professor at North Carolina State University. Proceeds from the HerbFest benefit The Graham Johnson Cultural Arts Endowment, www.gjcae.org, a children charitable foundation promotonig the development of self confidence and self esteem using the arts.

Urine Composting: Compost your Pee

Human urine is a great, natural, free source of Nitrogen for your soil or compost. Flushing your urine after each pee, would waste thousands of gallons of water per year at home. Then, your valuable urine is not only lost, but it goes to a chemical waste center where they must use chemicals on all that water you flushed, since within the sewage pipes it has all gotten mixed with stool. To minimize the water shortages seen in so many communities, an easy way to save water is by NOT flushing away your urine. Using it for your compost or garden is an extra benefit. (If you just let it sit in the toilet bowel until you have a bowel movement, then the urine can start to smell up your bathroom, and your garden or compost would be missing out on a great source of liquid nitrogen.) Try it…. it is much easier, cleaner, and normal than you might think.

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