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- Our BioSpeed composting machines optimize microbial breakdown to transform nearly all of your organic waste (see below) into lush, nutrient rich compost that can be used on campus grounds, gardens, large farms, donated, or even sold.
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How to Use Your Compost Use finished compost in a layer on top of your soil to nourish the plants underneath. Water will carry nutrients down, into the soil. This is called top-dressing. You can top-dress a garden, a tree, even a lawn (just sprinkle it in). 1  Compost also makes an excellent layer in any no-dig garden.
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- Successful composting combines brown & green organic materials with water & oxygen. 1  Greens -- are high in nitrogen, and provide the building blocks for the protein that microorganisms need to reproduce. Think living plants. 2  Browns -- are high in carbon and provide the carbon source for microorganisms. Think dead plants.
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Composting At Home 1 Greens - This includes materials such as grass clippings, vegetable waste, fruit scraps, and coffee grounds.  Water - Having the right amount of water, greens, and browns is important for compost development.
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What Is Good for Compost & What Isn't? Coffee grounds and used tea bags also produce nitrogen in the compost pile. Avoid adding oil or dairy products to the pile. Salad dressings and cooking oil don't compost well, so vegetables prepared with these items aren't suitable for composting (see References 2, page 1). Some nonfood waste also composts well.
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- Composting is like that, too. Every year, tons of organic materials are thrown away, needlessly filling up landfills. By composting these materials, you can lengthen the life of your local landfill. Like tossing a starfish back into the ocean, you can make a difference by composting. Compost to plants is like a healthy gourmet dinner to us. Compared to preparing a snazzy dinner however, making compost is easy, easy, easy.
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Tips & Tricks Carbon comes from brown materials such as dead leaves, hay, wood chips and shredded newspaper. A ratio that contains equal portions by weight (not volume) of both works best. 9. Algae and seaweed make excellent additions to your compost pile.
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- What is compost? Compost is a mixture of decaying organic matter, including food scraps, yard and garden trimmings, and manure; mature compost is also referred to as humus. Rich, dark humus replaces organic materials depleted from soil when growing flowers, vegetables, fruits or grass.
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- Councillor Nicky Walker, Midldesbrough Council's executive member for streetscene services, said: You can put a compost bin to use almost immediately by composting the vegetable peelings and remnants from your Christmas celebrations.
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How to Dry Compost Gather dry brown materials such as dead leaves, sawdust or straw. Tear down your compost pile by removing the top half with a shovel or gardening fork. Toss the compost with the brown ingredients you've gathered, then rebuild the pile.
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Compost Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment. Compost is a key ingredient in organic farming. At the simplest level, the process of composting requires making a heap of wet organic matter known as green waste and waiting for the materials to break down into humus after a period of weeks or months. Modern, methodical composting is a multi-step, closely monitored process with measured inputs of water, air, and carbon- and nitrogen-rich material
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Home Composting and Reducing Wasted Food Compost Ingredients. 1  Food - A good working compost pile has a mixture of high nitrogen, moist materials called greens and drier, carbon-rich materials called browns.  Greens include food scraps (such as fruit and vegetable peels, coffee grounds, tea bags and old bread), fresh grass clippings, fresh weeds and manure.
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Composting You can also add garden soil to your compost. A layer of soil will help to mask any odors, and micro-organisms in the soil will accelerate the composting process. Do not compost meat, bones or fish scraps (they will attract pests), perennial weeds (they can be spread with the compost) or diseased plants.imply wrap a small pile of leaves in burlap and immerse in a garbage can or large bucket of water. Leave for three days, then remove the tea bag and dump contents into the compost. Scoop out the enriched water with a smaller bucket and use to water your plants and shrubs.
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- Aeration or oxygen is essential for optimum microorganism populations to effectively breakdown the composting material. This can be done by turning, mixing, the use of blowers, fans, aeration tubes, aeration holes, or raising the compost off the ground.
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- Organic materials, fruit and vegetables scraps, leaves, grass clippings, twigs, coffee grinds, etc., break down (thanks to the help of microorganisms, oxygen, and water) into dark, loose crumbly material that resembles rich soil. Compost offers many benefits.
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- The best way to increase the nutrient content in your garden is to add microorganism-rich compost — which is the only kind we sell at Earth Care Farm. We have plenty of Screened Compost, Raised Bed Mix, and Potting Soil available Spring 2015. To improve quality and meet demand we are now screening our compost finer. All products at Earth Care Farm are now screened to 3/8”. Visit our products page to view costs and to consult a chart to help you determine how much compost your garden will need. Soil tests available at the bottom of page.
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How to Compost and the Different Types of Compost Bins The complete list of items that can be composted is extensive, but it can be categorized generally as either brown waste or green waste. Although all organic matter will compost, it is advisable not to compost items that may attract vermin or disease.
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50 Things You Can Compost What to Add to Your Compost. While it helps to know that there are two basic types of materials (greens and browns, i.e., nitrogen-rich and carbon-rich) to put into your bin, it might be even more helpful to have a detailed, go-to list of things you can compost. Not everything on this list will be for everyone.
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- What Leaves Should Not Be Composted. 1  Poisonous types such as oleander, hemlock, and castor bean can harm soil microorganisms, so add sparingly. 2  Acidic Resin types: walnut, eucalyptus, bay, laurel, cypress, juniper, acacia. 3  Tree leaves such as Ash and Poplar/Cottonwood raise the pH, making alkaline soil even more alkaline.
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- Compost is a key ingredient in organic farming. At the simplest level, the process of composting simply requires making a heap of wetted organic matter known as green waste (leaves, food waste) and waiting for the materials to break down into humus after a period of weeks or months.t is used in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, and agriculture. The compost itself is beneficial for the land in many ways, including as a soil conditioner, a fertilizer, addition of vital humus or humic acids, and as a natural pesticide for soil.
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Compost Compost can be used as an additive to soil, or other matrices such as coir and peat, as a tilth improver, supplying humus and nutrients.
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How to Layer a Compost Pile Creating a productive compost pile in your yard is a piece of cake. In fact, let a frosted layer cake be your inspiration. Compost is created by stacking thick layers of green or brown plant material (the cake) with thin layers of animal manure or fertilizers (the frosting).
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Composting with worms Composting with worms It's simple. The worms are kept in a bin with shredded paper or other biodegradable bedding. You feed them food waste. They digest the waste and bedding then excrete nutrient-rich castings.After a few months, the castings combined with the well-decomposed bedding, become vermicompost -- one of the richest soil improvements around.he best worms for vermicomposting are redworms. The redworm (Eisenia foetida or Lumbricus rubellus) also known as: red wiggler, manure worm, red hybrid, striped worm, fish worm. Whatever it's called, the redworm is the worm capable of reproducing quickly in captivity, while chomping copious quantities of food waste.
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Garbage: Facts Compost is not limited to tossing leaves and grass clippings into a pile. It's much more creative than that! Here's a list of 163 materials (and still counting!) you can add to your compost pile or even bury in your garden. Just think, 163 materials that don't end up in the landfill.
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50 Things You Can Compost Greens for Your Compost Bin. Greens are the nitrogen-rich additions to your compost pile. These tend to have lots of moisture, break down quickly, and provide a quick burst of heat to your pile.