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What To Know Before Starting Your First Compost Pile

No Comments 16 June 2009

Composting is a perennial topic that many gardeners pay much attention to all year long. You may treat it as a science project; where you add special additives and measure the composting ingredients down to the teaspoon or you create a monitoring system that surveys every inch of rot. Yet some of you may prefer [...]

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What Should You Add to a Compost Pile?

No Comments 01 April 2009

When you’ve decided on where to locate your new compost pile and which design to use, you have to decide on what materials to compost. Whether you decided to build your own composting system or use a freestyle pile, you still use the same raw materials to reach your ultimate composting goal: nutrient rich, hummus-y [...]

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Got Rot? Speed Up Your Compost Pile

No Comments 24 September 2008

Composting is as old as the earth. There are billions of fun microbes and fungi flitting about making soil amendments in nature. Just take a look under any log. But what about bringing this benefit to your backyard? Luckily composting is one of the easiest skills to posses. However, learning how to compost can be [...]

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Compost Tumblers Great For Small Spaces and Tidy Gardeners

No Comments 08 July 2008

I purchased this Tumbleweed Composter from Clean Air Gardening and I love it. The tumbler was expensive but worth every penny, and not to mention my time in the garden. The roll up your sleeves and grab a pitchfork method just didn’t appeal to me. I spend enough energy weeding, mulching, digging, watering, transplanting, and [...]