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How To Build And Manage A Worm Farm To Suit The Average Family. Recycle Household Organic Waste Into Fertiliser For Your Garden And Help The Environment Too.

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The man made compost bin is redundant by way of Mother Nature’s natural system – WORMS. Find out the story of how we created the Worm Farm to suit the average family.

Make the move. It’s simple, costs nothing to run and above all, it’s not time consuming. Create your own fertiliser for free. Most of the items needed you probably already have lying around the house. You will NOT need an old bath or plastic container.

Our Worm Farm is now over 10 years old and still going strong. Find out all the do’s and don’ts and get the facts in simple English with no long scientific names.

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“Garden Paving”

Make a flight of steps look more formal by placing two matching containers at either side of the bottom or top step. They can be planted up with bay, roses, box or dwarf conifer, alternatively stand large decorative pots such as terracotta filled with stones to give weight and stability.

To soften the effect of a large, paved area (Garden Paving), take up one or two slabs and plant into the soil. Before adding the plants, prepare the soil well adding some compost and manure to introduce nutrients.

To age new bricks, brush them with milk or yoghurt.

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields

This introduction to biointensive gardening shows that it is not only possible but easy to grow astonishing crops of healthful organic vegetable and fruits, while conserving resources and helping the soil.

Jeavons and Cox offer a less technical version of Jeavons’s best-selling book on biointensive gardening, How To Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, published over 25 years ago.

Written for both the beginner and the experienced gardener, this new book shows how to cultivate 11 commonly grown vegetables, calorie crops (beans), or compost crops in Read more…