Composting your kitchen and garden waste is a great way to reduce the amount of waste you dispose of in your rubbish bin. By composting your waste you can generate a free source of rich compost to help improve your garden, and also help to reduce global warming in the process. How does home composting help to reduce global warming? When sent to landfill organic waste is compressed under tonnes and tonnes of other waste types. The organic waste therefore does not have enough access to air, which restricts the waste from being able to decompose properly. Instead of decomposing, meth...

Did you know that the your local climate can have an impact on the performance of a composting toilet? It's true. Whether your climate experiences especially cold and long winters or very humid summers, the weather does play a role in how you will use and maintain your system. If you're thinking about adding a composting toilet to your home, climactic conditions are definitely something you should consider before you select and purchase a unit. First and foremost, it's important to understand that the primary function of any composting toilet is evaporation. Because our waste is appro...

Do not be put off the benefits of compost as a way of garden recycling. You only need a few basic rules to create crumbly, rich hummus at home. One of the most obvious ways of garden recycling is to compost all your garden waste. Or at the very least, compost al the waste which is simple to compost! While you're at it you could also recycle all (or very nearly all) your kitchen waste too. But for those new 'Garden Composters' who have not composted before can get bogged down in all the technicalities of how to make a compost pile. Do you need a commercial compost bin or is a home...

The hot buzz words of this New Year are carbon footprint. It is used to mean what type of carbon waste you will leave behind when you are gone. Your amount of waste or the garbage/trash that you are responsible for in your local landfill is a typical carbon footprint. You are probably already doing some type recycling with your aluminum cans, plastics and paper. Recycling is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. By recycling you limit the amount of waste that gets put in your landfill. Now imagine for a moment you can recycle even more than you already do. You are probably sa...

Maybe you've never heard the term vermiculture, if so don't feel bad, many experienced gardeners are unfamiliar with this organic practice. I think vermiculture is fascinating; simply put it's the process of composting kitchen waste with earthworms. We're not talking about common night crawlers, but special varieties of worms such as red worms, and red wigglers. Okay, I'll admit to owning an ant farm when I was a kid, but this is so much more practical. Vermiculture, or vermicomposting as its also known is more like beekeeping; yes I've given that a try too. But just imagine for a second,...

Composting is probably the number one activity any gardener should put in place. The benefits are incredibly huge and the cost is nearly zero, once the initial setup has been done. Composting is actually a way to restitute to your garden a large part of the nutrients and elements you retire when harvesting. This creates a beneficial recycling loop which ensures your soil remains full of life and nutrients. In addition, compost increases the microbiological activity of your soil, ensuring that the remaining nutrients are "unlocked" and available to your plants. In practice, many people are...

The present situation of our Mother Earth calls for its inhabitants to address environmental concerns by taking steps towards a greener lifestyle. Composting is one such solution. As innovations are made, the method of composting is reaching a new frontier with the advent of double chamber design compost bins. Serious about composting the right way? Information garnered from reading a Mantis Compost Twin review gave me an impression a lot of active people living a green lifestyle by composting their household organic wastes are doing it the way it was never done before -- replacing c...

More than 60% of the waste made in the average American household can be recycled for composted and there is only 8% of Americans who compost their waste. Compost is an all-in-one conditioner, fertilizer and mulch for soil. It provides the soil with microorganisms that helps plants to stay healthy, improves soil’s condition and helps clay sand drain while sandy soil retain needed water. Composting also lowers your contribution to waste by recycling both kitchen and yard waste. It keeps organic matter available for use in the garden and away from overburdened landfills. There are several ways...

When starting to compost, one must ask, which exactly is better the compost bin or the compost tumbler? Really, it all depends on who you ask and what their current lifestyle is like. For instance, does this person have the time to commit to their compost and garden? More importantly, do you? Whatever your answer will be may well dictate whether you'll go with purchasing a compost bin or tumbler. Let's take a few factors into considerations to help you decide: Compost bins are easy to use and are just as easy to put together with little parts or none at all. Popular compost bins li...

Save H2O Pots and containers are notoriously thirsty, so avoid where possible, and if you are using them, remember that bigger containers will dry out less quickly. Line the garden containers with plastic to help retain moisture (old compost bags are good) and add water-retaining granules when planting up. Specialist container composts are ready-mixed with water-retaining granules. In borders, use a mulch, such as chipped bark, to help keep moisture in the soil – it will keep the weeds downs too! Ditch the hose and sprinkler – hosepipes and sprinklers get through gallons of water. Use a bi...