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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Worm Factory DS5GT 5-Tray Worm Composter - Green
The Worm Factory® is easy to set up and use. Place bedding and scraps in the bottom tray then add your worms. Place the lid inside the top tray to provide light cover with proper ventilation. As the worms finish digesting, they will migrate upward into the tray above, leaving rich castings behind. The concentrated liquid created from the worm castings, also known as worm tea, can be effortlessly drained as liquid fertilizer from the spigot at the bottom of The Worm Factory®. It couldn't be easier or cleaner. The lid also provides proper ventilation so there are no unpleasant odors. Because its clean, mess free, and odor free, composting with The Worm Factory® makes it possible to be placed indoors or outdoors for home owners and apartment dwellers alike and produce compost year round. In full operation, the Worm Factory® houses 10,000 to 12,000 worms, consumes 5 to 8 pounds of food a week, allowing you to harvest a full tray of nutrient rich castings every month. You will also have an ample supply of worms for fishing.Price: $109.95
Worm Factory DS3GT 3-Tray Worm Composter, Green
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Price: $89.95
Thursday, November 18, 2010
A Garden Perpetually Bursting With Life
This article will show you how you can start to have such a garden full of edible plants with only 8 to 10 hours of work per YEAR, no digging, fertilizers or pesticides.
Now is just the right time of the year for people living in the northern hemisphere to start preparing to have their own organic vegetables on the table coming spring. That is a start to becoming self-sufficient, which by the way, is the only way to weather an economic slump; and it's common knowledge that organic food improves overall health. When you are healthy, you don't have medical bills to pay. That's another big saving, apart from saving on your food expenses.
The secret for a nonstop growing vegetable garden like this is first of all the soil. If you inspect the soil in natural woodlands, you'll see it's moist, loose and crumbly. You want to have this kind of soil for your garden to have it perpetually bursting with life. If you cannot collect it straight from the woods, you somehow need to produce it yourself. This actually is very easy and real cheap. You need to have constant supply of compost, which doesn't take much effort or a big investment to produce yourself.
You can start right now with composting.
Compost is the best and cheapest soil conditioner you can get. You don't have to buy compost unless you want to start your ecologically sustainable vegetable garden immediately.
First get two composting bins at a hardware store, preferably those you turn, or take any old containers with a lid and poke some drainage holes into them.
Use one for the breaking down of the materials, the other to fill with the broken down material. Also buy some manure if you don't have access to stables, dairies or chicken farms
Then start collecting all organic material that you normally throw into the waste. Organic material is anything that is or was once living or came from a living thing such as: fresh and dry grass clippings, kitchen scraps, shredded newspaper and leaves. Even meat that's gone bad, can be composted, although it takes longer to decay.
Thirdly: put the organic material into the compost bin in about 6 inches thick layers, varying the different materials. During dry spells you may have to moisten your breaking down materials, otherwise you just leave it to break down for 4 to 6 weeks, turning everything once or twice. That's it, real easy to make your own compost. Once it's ready, use it as top layer in your vegetable garden; don't dig it in.
Summing up this article:
Once you have soil like in natural woodlands, organic vegetables and fruit can be grown perpetually right through the year without any digging or weeding, since weeds don't like compost. A rich soil also does not need to be watered as much as poor soil. Composting is the start for ecologically sustainable gardening.
By implementing your own vegetable garden you not only advance your health, but can save a bucket full of cash on a monthly basis.
For a Review of a revolutionary method of vegetable gardening you can go to
Ecologically Sustainable Gardening
Hanne-L du Plessis has implemented her organic vegetable garden successfully in Namibia, a semi-desert country, to improve her own health and supply a balanced, organic diet to 35 exotic parrots. Her vision is self-sufficiency and living in harmony with nature. She was actively involved in Nature Conservation before retirement. Now she does her little part to save endangered species from extinction, provide a safe home for unwanted pets and teach the poor to become self-sufficient.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Changing Seasons – Fall
Fall is certainly a bitter sweet season for me. I see all the flowers of summer fading away. As the last of the garden crop is picked and canned my thought drift towards the dull dreary days of the upcoming winter months. In just a few weeks though the leaves of the trees will change into a technicolor explosion in the last blaze of glory for this year. Walking on a cool brisk afternoon enjoying that amazing display of nature is one of the things that lifts my spirits as I taken the colorful fall leaves. While certainly in the back of my mind I know that I will shortly be raking all those leaves, it is still amazing in how much color the fading year is painted with as it moves towards it’s winter slumber.
I realize of course that winter is a very important part of the garden life cycle. The plants all need a rest so that they can repair themselves and build up for next years display I just wish that winter was not so black and white. Fortunately there are still amazing color combination’s in the winter time that would not come about if it were not for the fall leaf drop. Red and yellow twig dogwood shrubs are a striking site after a new layer of fresh fallen snow. The branches of the yellow cork screw willow or the papery peeling bark of a paper bark elm shows a whole new dimension to the trees that can not be seen at their best until they have shed their summer coats. Yet I still long for the days of spring and summer when winter does finally take over.
The fall garden harvest is a great reminder when a jar of zesty home made salsa is opened on a cold winter day to enjoy with friends and family that might stop by. When that savory tomatoes sauce you canned is used for a nice spaghetti dinner that warms your body from the winters cold it seems like fall is not all in vain. Yes it is true that fall feels like the end of your gardening experiences for another year. But is just the beginning of a new time in the garden.
As I ponder the end of the gardening season for me there are still many ways that the garden in winter will bring you a sense of well being and give you quiet tranquility. Even though the flowers are gone along with the leaves the garden is still home to the birds , squirrels, and rabbits that could use a hand with some food. You will be rewarded as you watch these garden visitors gathering up the goodies that you leave out for them. Their antics can be quit amusing and draw you in for a little quiet time in the winter garden. The trees and shrubs in their bare bones appearance can also be an interesting feature and maybe make you think about other interesting things that can be planted next year to complement your garden in winter.
Yes while fall brings a lot of work and a bit of melancholy over the fading garden it does bring you time to recharge as well during those winter days. Most important if there were no winter days when would you ever find time to look through all those garden catalogs?
Enjoy Better Flowers, Ferns and Veggies With Organic Gardening Compost
Lawns luxuriant in greenery, abounding with flowers and ferns of immense beauty, need no more be only a picture in that gardening journal, which you subscribe to every month. Nor are they limited to the prerogative of the rich and the famous, if you take the initiative of switching over to organic gardening compost to feed that green gold growing in your backyard.
Do you want your roses and dahlias to be as plush and healthy as those growing in the garden of the celebrities? Do you want your kitchen garden to produce nothing but healthy eatables free of chemicals and pesticides? You most certainly do. Then treat your plants with organic compost.
With environmental concerns gaining precedence with each passing day, the health of your plants has become as important as your own well-being. Just like you, your plants too require a good diet of nutrients to help them stay fit and last long. This can only be supplied by administering a good dose of organically prepared compost.
Compost is, in other words, the complete planned food for plants as it carries all the nutrients that the plants need in just the right measure. Phosphorous, Potassium and Nitrogen are the key nutrients that plants derive from it. It is free from those harmful chemicals that may cause damage to the health of your plants and at some point of time to your own health if you eat veggies laced with chemicals.
It comprises organic matter which decomposes gradually, thereby imparting nourishment and health to the soil. Organically produced compost replenishes the soil with all the vital nutrients that may be missing, but which a plant requires to grow in a healthy manner, preparing it for good gardening.
Next, it helps the soil lock in adequate moisture, which again, is quite important for good growth of the plants. It gives the soil nutrients that plants can ingest with great ease. If you are an environment buff, it is advisable for you to prepare compost on your own. This can be done easily by collecting materials at hand.
Organic Gardening Compost can be prepared with anything that has the capacity to decompose organically including left over food, decaying veggies and animal droppings (excluding that of cats and dogs as it can spread diseases), but care should be taken to avoid those elements that have the capacity to germinate again. The material should be put into a composting bin in layers and kept covered to protect it from rain, mixing it regularly to see that the layers decompose properly and completely.
Clint Sidney is a gardening enthusiast and recommends this excellent Organic Gardening Compost. You can learn more about gardening at GreatGardener.eHelpshome.com.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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