Archive for the ‘How to Make Compost’ Category
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Home Composting Class Update
I attended a Home Composting Class put on by the U. of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences through our county’s Extension Service. I was happy to discover that I was familiar with most of the material covered since I started composting at home about one month ago. I had tried to do my [...]
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Home Composting Class
I signed up for a Home Composting class put on by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences through our county’s Extension Service. So far I have mainly researched composting and interacted with other home composters on the Internet, so I’m looking forward to meeting others in my area who are also [...]
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How Do I Know When the Compost is Ready
How do I know when the compost is ready? Since I haven’t gotten to the point of adding another tray to my Worm Factory 360, I had not yet considered if I would know that it was done. I think mainly the worms will leave the tray once there is no food left and there is [...]
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Composting Tips, Tutorials and Tools
Florida’s Online Composting Center is a terrific resource for composting tips, tutorials and tools. There is a comprehensive list of items you can and cannot compost at http://www.compostinfo.com/tutorial/CanICompostIt.htm. Besides listing yes and no for each item, it explains how it will affect the compost. I also like the Virtual Composter interactive tool that lets you [...]
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What is Composting?
My plan was to start composting at home, perhaps because it just feels wrong to throw food and garden waste into a plastic bag and then into a dumpster. So I went straight to researching compost containers, so that I could buy one right away and get started. What I learned quickly by reading product [...]
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I Won’t Be Using a Compost Pile
I can easily say that I’ve ruled out using a compost pile or heap as my method of composting. Although I don’t know if I can be called an urban composter, I live in a small townhouse and have very limited space inside and if I’m going to put anything outside, it had better be almost [...]
