Create Gardener’s Gold with a Lifetime Tumbling Composter #NGfamily

If you have been around my blog for a little while, you know I am all about trying to compost! Organic compost can do wonders for your garden and eliminate the need for fertilizers naturally.  Growing up we always had a compost pile.  We saved our vegetable scraps and carried them over to it almost daily.  The reality it, for anyone that wants to garden, composting really should be a no-brainer. Composting is simply the breakdown of decomposed organic material.  {Read More}

Composting 101: Five Different Ways to Compost

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While this is not an inclusive list, it does give you a few different ways to create compost to feed your garden soil.  Vermicomposting This is composting with worms and will produce rich, fertile compost that will let your garden thrive!  You don’t have to have something fancy to make worm composting work for you.  They need a well drained home and will feed on your kitchen scraps.  Your garden will appreciate the end results!  You do need a special {Read More}

Composting 101: What is the Difference in Hot and Cold?

Have you heard the terms hot composting or cold composting?  Have you thought, what on earth are they talking about?  I have!  It has nothing to do with the weather, actually it has to do with your hands-on approach to how you want to go about composting.  Simple put, hot and cold composting have the meaning of whether you take an active or passive approach to composting.  Cold Composting For cold composting, you simple select a space for your organic {Read More}

Composting 101: What is Green & Brown?

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Photo Credit: TotallyGreen.com When you look at composting articles or books they use the terms “green” and “brown” compost items. What exacly do they mean? The end result of compost is your garden’s gold-it is what feeds the soil life, the worms and microbes then do the actual work of turning your waste into dark, rich compost. We as humans, well actually all living beings need a well rounded diet with the proper nutrients to be healthy and flourish.  Just {Read More}

Composting 101: What are the Benefits to Composting?

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What are the Benefits of Composting? The answer to that question is fairly simple: it is good for your garden and also the environment! Benefits to Your Garden Compost is one of nature’s best mulches and soil amendments, and you can use it instead of commercial synthetic fertilizers.  Using compost improves soil structure and aeration and increases the soil’s capacity to hold the proper amount of water.  The organic matter that compost gives provides food for the microorganisms in the {Read More}