| Do you compost? How do you do your compost? If you don't how would you? | | Do you have a bucket and when it's filled, bring it to a compost pile? Or do you just throw scraps in after every meal? Or does it change during different seasons? Do you have a composting barrel that you turn? Do you have a fensed in compost pile? Do you have wooden slats around it? Do you just have a pile with nothing around it that you turn with a pitch fork? Do you have mulitiple compost bins? Do you have meal worms in a box under the sink that you throw scraps in? Any others that I haven't written here? If you aren't composting now, what are your ideas for the future? | |
| | do you use a composter? need your opinion, then... | | My hubby and I went to buy additional blue (recycling)boxes and saw some composters for sale. We had been thinking about them before, but were worried about attracting vermin and raccoons. Have you used composters? Please share your experience and thanks in advannce!:-} | |
| | Compost basics | | It's that time of year again here in the States.
I am going to try mt very first composting this year I believe.
This may help you also as far as the basics of making a compost pile. To save on waste and provide a nutritious soil amendment
for your garden, consider making a home compost pile. This
is a good way to recycle precious nutrients back into the
earth. To make a compost pile that will break down quickly
to form finished compost, you will need:* Green materials, such as grass clippings, vegetable
trimmings, and weeds. Green waste is high in nitrogen and
helps heat up the compost pile fast.* Brown materials, including dry leaves, straw and woody
brush. Brown material is high in carbon.* Enough moisture to keep the compost pile as damp as a
wrung out sponge.* Air to help build up more heat so that the material
will decompose faster.* A source of good bacteria to help break down the compost.
A scoop of garden soil should be all you need, but you can
also buy a compost activator. Put all of your ingredients together in a pile of four to
five cubic feet. A pile of this size heats up quickly in
the center, reaching up... | |
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| Have you ever thought about a new design for the toilet? | | Someone has designed a combination aquarium and toilet. I do not know how the plumbing works. Obviously you would not want to flush your fish. Guess I should find a video of this thing so we could see it in action. Have you any unique or creative ideas for how to make a toilet more interesting? | |
| | Whose watching out for the planet? What do you do to help? | | Every time I turn around companies are destroying our home. Earth can only take so much pollution and destruction before she's gonna get right ticked off and do something about it.Do you do things to make our world a better place for our children? | |
| | Is it possible to change the soil in your garden?? | | I live in a lovely neighbourhood and all houses have huge gardens surrounding the bunglows.. there are huge mango and tamarind trees growing in my garden which have been groing for years... but many of the new plants, especially vegetable plants which i try to cultivate die veryt easily.. our neighbours got the soil in their garden changed (dunno how they cud do that) and their garden is really flourishing.. I didnt know that could be done and i sounds like lots of hard work, bringing in new soil and all.. does anybody know how this can be done and if it helps?? | |
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| Compost Pile versus Tumbler | | Currently I have my composting material in a bin that I rotate once a week. I have some other barrels that hold the material until it's ready to be put in the bin.
Are you composting, and if so how long does it take you to get some good compost? Also, are you using a compost pile or a bin/tumbler? | |
| | Compost Heaps versus Worm Farms... | | Can anyone clarify the difference between a compost heap and a worm far? I have read material on worm farms which often seems to imply that the worm farms just live in a compost heap, but by my understanding, a compost heap decomposes organic materials by an exothermic bacteriological process which would kill any worms trying to start a family in it. So it appears to me that the two structures, a worm farm and a compost heap, serve pretty much the same function, but use entirely different organisms to accomplish the task and are completely incompatible with each other. But it would help a lot to have the advice of people who have experience in managing both types of organic processing. | |
| | How Pro Green are you? | | How much or how often do you recycle? It's already in the news that a Super Al Nino is well on the way as predicted by the experts. Do you think your neighbourhood or district or citizens are 'green' conscious? Have you done your part? What have you been doing? | |
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| Are you Eco-friendly? | | Do you try hard to not waste the Earths resources, to recycle and re-use, but also to reduce what you consume,a nd do your best to repair the mamage we cause? I worry about this a lot, and I do my best but I'm sure I don't do nearly enough to offset the impact of my living here. | |
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