Posts Tagged ‘Coffee Grounds’
“Vermicomposting” It was 1952 and Mr. Campbell had a worm bin. This shallow box—about two feet wide by four feet long—resided under a worktable in the tiny storeroom/greenhouse adjacent to our grade school science class. It was full of what looked like black, crumbly soil and zillions of small, red wiggly worms, not at all [...]
Categories: Organic Gardening
Tags: Book Worms, Brandling Worms, Coffee Grounds, Crumbly Soil, House Plants, Kitchen Compost, Learning Curve, Liquid Emissions, Mary Appelhof, Mr Campbell, Nightcrawlers, Organic Gardener, Potted Plants, Secret Surprise, Vermicomposting, Wiggly Worms, Worktable, Worm Bin, Worm Composting, Worms Eat My Garbage
“Compost” If adding compost is your chosen method to add nutrients to the soil, then there is a wide range of materials you can use. Composted manure, homemade compost, municipal compost, sawdust composted with manure — they’re all good products. If you work in compost in spring, it will improve the soil structure just as [...]
Categories: Basic Gardening
Tags: Banana Skins, Basic Gardening, Citrus Peel, Coffee Grounds, Comfrey, Compost, Compost Heaps, Composting Worms, Diseased Plants, Egg Shells, Garden Compost, Grass Cuttings, Kitchen Scraps, Micro Organisms, Necessary Ingredients, Parts Of Soil, Rule Of Thumb, Sea Weed, Shredded Paper, Soil Structure, Spreading The Disease, Vegetable Waste, Worm Bin