Garden Amendments: Composted Cow Manure and The Commando Garden

Posted by Adina Composted Cow Manure is an excellent garden amendment. In the garden we focus on the soil a great deal. We work to make great compost, and if it goes in your garden the way it goes in mine you will run out of your home made compost before your compost needs are met. Composted Cow [...]

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For The Best Composting Materials Learn to Scrounge Around

Posted by Adina [/caption] Now that you are composting you will probably look at your world differently. Many people who come talk to me when they first start composting say they are having trouble finding carbonaceous composting materials. For the best composting materials you have to learn to scrounge around. That [...]

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Manure: An Earthworm Inoculant for Compost?

Posted by Adina Eventually when I speak to people about their compost piles and bins the inquiry turns to earthworms, and whether they should *buy worms to add to their compost piles. I always say “Put your compost on the ground, and the earth worms will come.”. That, it seems, has always been true for me, or has [...]

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Invertebrates of the Compost Pile

Posted by Adina This is an excellent article from the Cornell Waste Management Web Site. I don’t know about you, but it makes me want to run right out and see how many of these invertebrates I can find in my compost heap. Invertebrates of the Compost Pile Written by Nancy Trautmann, Cornell Center for the [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Invertebrates of the [...]

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