Compost

well-maintained garden while avoiding chemical fertilizers. Using compost in your garden has been known to be beneficial in building a sustained garden due to its spectrum of essential plant nutrients. Using compost as a organic fertilizer is an important factor in maintaining a healthy garden because it is cost effective, convenient, saves resources, while helping improve plant development. Though compost provides the necessary nutrients for plants, some are concerned about the cost of composting. According to the “Green Action Centre,” compost is very cost effective and helps…

Mulch around but not on top of the plants, with 3 inches of organic compost. Water well until soil is completely moist and soft. This plant thrives well when planted in areas with full sun and in soil that drains well. In areas with winter freezes, mulch well to protect underground tubers and the flowers will come back year after year and also remember that to ensure to keep plants blooming from June to October, this a secret tip from our florist store. Harvest flowers by gently twisting the…

growth. Fertilizers exist naturally in the form of organic amendments, which deliver such essential nutrients as Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Potassium, and a few other macro/micro nutrients like iron, calcium, and magnesium. Nutrients also exist as a raw element, as in chemical fertilizers. Synthetic fertilizer delivers the nitrogen, but not all of it is absorbed, leading to runoff, which can cause contamination of drinking water, and algal blooms. Furthermore, chemical fertilizers are petroleum…

Food waste is an essential component of the best compost, adding essential nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen, which help plants flourish. Unfortunately, food waste can attract flies, is unsightly, and may become smelly while sitting in your kitchen waiting for its trip to the compost bin. The way that people deal with this little problem varies widely. When I was a kid living on a farm, my family just stored the compost in a large metal bowl and took it outside when it got stinky or the…

Mid Term Goal (6 months) 5.Expand front of house composting in Student Center East- Long Term Goal Responsible Parties- Director of Campus Auxiliary Services- help prepare new composting bins Office of Sustainability- Help organizes the event and recruit volunteers. May help with compost signage Director of Facilities Management- Develop adequate procedures for handling influx of compost streams The Delta Institute – The Field Museum recruited intern/volunteers/workers from the Delta…

My second leap of faith assumption is each person is aware and knows the importance of how to live green by recycling the waste and reusing it again for different purpose. My third leap of faith assumption is people have a strong blender to blend the compost scrap food and nearby garden to pour the blended raw materials. Light Weight Experiment (Experiment design and hypothesis) I started my light weight experiment at my own place. I bought a different bag for compost and for 3 days I did not…

3 feet wide, so that you can reach into it without walking on the garden's surface. 6. If you are building multiple beds, leave enough space between them so that you can easily mow the grass or create pathways with shredded wood mulch. (Don't use shredded wood mulch for the vegetable garden, though, as it tends to deplete the nitrogen in the soil.) 7. Fill the bed with good garden soil, which can be either purchased or created. The best soil for most vegetable gardening is loamy soil that…

What kind of soil structure that supports the growth of garden landscaping? The structure of the soil fertile and flat is coveted for each kind of garden landscaping. But for those of you that have outdoor areas like slopes, how to make garden landscaping? What is the area of hillside garden landscaping can be made? Of course it can, although the contours of the land are like that, you can still create a garden or often called the hillside landscaping. But when you happen to have to make the…

greatly reducing how much garbage goes into landfills. Composting should be required in schools. It costs very little, can give students a great learning opportunity, and helps the environment. Making an on-site bin composting system only costs around four-hundred dollars while giving students a great learning opportunity, unless the materials are donated, which are fairly common and should be of no issue to fund raise the costs for. Having your composting done commercially costs thirty…

Organic gardeners use only natural repellants, like essential oils, to keep their gardens free from pests. Floating row covers, nets with small openings, are used on crops to prevent insect infestation. The polyester material allows water, air flow, and sunlight to penetrate the net thus allowing effective pest control without disrupting the growing process. This is used as a prophylactic treatment to prevent an infestation before it occurs ("Organic Fertilizers”). To promote growth, organic…