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How to Start An Organic Garden!

>> Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Is there anything more important than you and your family's health? Then organic gardening is right for you!

Organic gardening does not involve the use of chemical fertilizers.Those harmful chemicals man made which increases the risk of cancers, birth defects, infertility and many other health problems.

Many people know of these problems and yet they do not want to take the time and measures to prevent it. Not until it happens to them. Is money more important than your health?

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Make a Compost Tea - wikiHow

>> Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Make a Compost Tea - wikiHow

How to Make a Compost Tea


from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

You have worked away at making some perfect compost. Here is a way to make it especially effective to help give plants a special boost or even to give them a quick-fix remedy when they're looking a little nutrient-deficient. Not a tea you want to drink but one that your plants will soak up greedily.

Steps


  1. Check that your compost is ready for use. You can also use partially-composted matter - reach down past the top of the compost to the moist warm stuff below and pull out a handful. This way you don't have to wait weeks or months before making use of your compost.
  2. Get a cloth bag and fill it up with your compost. Size of the bag should be small to medium - so that you can easily lift it when filled with compost.
  3. Soak the filled bag in a watering can, tub, barrel or other outdoor container for 1 - 3 days.
  4. The water should turn a dark chocolate color. Dilute it with new water to achieve a solution that is tea-colored.
  5. Pour on plants thirsty for a boost.
  6. You can re-use the compost tea-bag a few times.
  7. When the bag is no longer producing dark colored water, its nutrients are exhausted and you can tip the solids back into the garden.


Video


A different method of making compost tea.

Tips


  • Use the mixture on both indoor and outdoor plants.
  • The mixture is suitable for potted plants, plants in garden beds and plants growing elsewhere.
  • Saplings will also get a good boost from this mixture.
  • Use non-chlorinated water or let it sit for a couple of days first.
  • Aeration really helps. You can either hook up an aquarium pump with a hose or shake the container of water enough to produce a froth on the surface.


Warnings


  • None! The compost tea-bag is not toxic and anyone can do it.
  • Well... you probably shouldn't drink the tea. Unless you like tea that tastes like compost!


Things You'll Need


  • Compost ready for use
  • Cloth bag (about library bag sized or under)
  • Watering can or container for soaking bag in


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How to Build an Organic Compost Pile Indoors During the Winter

>> Monday, October 6, 2008

Vermicompost is the best organic compost fertilizer you can make. This organic compost uses worms to make the compost. This process is the fast way in the winter months as the worms are aiding in the compost. Without the worms, one would be making organic compost by the outdoor method, only in-doors and possibly taking several months. It will be ready for spring gardening anyway. The organic compost you can make with worms in the winter can be ready in about 6 -8 weeks.
To get started you need 3 main ingredients: worms, a container or bin and "bedding".

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How to Make Organic Compost Fertilizer

Making compost is a process of cultivating living micro-organisms. These micro-organisms must have 4 ingredients to flourish and produce a nutrient rich fertilizer or mulch. These 4 are oxygen or air, water, nitrogen, and carbon. Nitrogen rich materials are the “green” or moist materials such as fresh grass clipping, leaves, and most other alive landscape substances. Carbon rich materials are the “brown” or dry materials such as dry twigs, leaves, hay, and straw etc. Just keep a note that the greens will be alive and moist and the browns are all things dry. Water will used to wet down each layer of the pile and air or oxygen is added when the pile is turned providing air pockets by not allowing the pile to compress and compact. Many materials are bio-degradable but for organic fertilizer, it must not have any chemicals.
There is not a set method of building an organic compost pile. Piles are built in layers to ensure the proper proportion of nitrogen to carbon, and water and air. Then the layers are thoroughly mixed or “turned”. Begin by selecting

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What Are The 4 Necessary Ingredients for Organic Compost?

>> Saturday, October 4, 2008

To produce a successfully nutrient rich organic compost pile, you will need 4 ingredients. These 4 are classified as greens, browns, water and oxygen. With the current move to be green minded in all areas of our lives, organic composting is a natural step in that direction.

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Hello and Welcome

Hello all, I desire this blog to be a place where I can review and then promote authors of organic gardening and organic composting that have the actual experience of what they write about. These authors are living the example and then put their experiences down in writing to shorten our learning curve. As I go through their books and put into practice what they teach me, then I too will be able to write an ebook. Until then, please support these authors I have found to be worthy.

Why Make Compost?

>> Friday, October 3, 2008

This is just part 1 of the 3 part free Why Make Compost? guide. Get all 3 parts yourself now if you want by Clicking Here!
Here is part 1:

There are so many benefits to creating your own compost, so I think it’s worth the effort. Here are 6 reasons why.
1. Where-ever you make your well made compost heap it will get so hot that the soil
underneath it ‘burns’, along with any weeds – so it will even kill Couch or Kikuya
grass. Native soil life can bury down under the hot surface area to survive. Enough
nutrients leach down into the soil

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Fast Organic Gardening!

No matter what people say about organic gardening, there's nothing more important than you and your family's health.
As you may have knew or guessed it, organic gardening does not involve the use of chemical fertilizers which reduces the risk of Cancer, Birth Defects, Infertility and many other health problems.

Many know of such problems but they do not want to prevent it UNTIL it happens to them. Sad, isn't it? You may argue that money is important than health or equally important.

What I'm trying to convey is, don't wait till the problem happens to you and then prevent it but prevent it before it happens to you. I hope I'm not confusing you. That is why I would say go organic now.

I can't stress the importance with words.

To learn how to start your own organic garden with detailed step-by-step guide within weeks, Click Here!

Free Composting Guide

You can get a free composting guide and informative organic gardening articles by email. Just go to their website and sign up for free. There is alot of good material on organic composting and organic gardening from Julie Villani. She writes from her own experience so your learning curve is shortened. Help support those who bring their experience to you! Check out her website by clicking here!

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