Mar

29

Compost, Mulch, And Wood Chips

March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

They are all popular ways to top-dress flower beds. Compost, mulch, and wood chips add organic material to the flower bed, retain moisture, and add elegance to the overall design.

Landfill Compost

Landfill compost is easily the best flower bed topdressing. It’s rich black look is striking against plants. In addition, it has more organic matter than most compost.

Landfills have a huge advantage over nurseries. People have to pay them to bring the raw materials to make compost. For this reason, their compost is always cheaper and in fact better than nursery compost. The only slight downside is that landfill compost has more weed seeds mixed in than nursery compost.

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Jan

18

Bugs Sure Do Grow Big Down Here In Florida

January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Originally being from the outer suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, I am used to natural surroundings and an occaisional insect. But, since moving down to Florida, my knowledge of bugs has increased dramatically. Up north, there may be a few species of insect that can be troublesome. Down here, it pays to make sure the critters in your neighborhood stay outdoors, and don’t come inside of your home.

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Dec

17

Compost Accelerators - Use The Ones At Hand

December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Compost piles are a feast for millions of microorganisms. Once the proper mix of food, moisture and air are available, the parties come to the feast and do their work. However, most of those who compost want it as fast as possible and some suppliers of garden materials tell us we need an accelerator or starter for the pile to make it work faster. They are only half right when it comes to an accelerator for the compost pile.

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Dec

5

Want To Grow Herbs? Gardening Tips For Herbs Growing

December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Herbs have been grown for numerous years, for a variety of reasons and there are hundreds of different varieties of herbs. Gardening by monks and nuns in medieval times, always included a number of herbs.

Growing them then was mainly for medicinal purposes and for their smell, especially as air fresheners, As time progressed, they began to be grown for culinary and decorative purposes, often to disguise the flavour of none too fresh food.

Today, it is possible in many shops and supermarkets to buy both fresh and dried herbs. Gardening and growing your own however, ensures that they really are fresh, and that you have the choices that you want, as well as being a lot less expensive.

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Nov

26

Compost - Making It Fast

November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

There never seems to be enough compost for a busy gardener. That being so, there are two things for a gardener to do, either make more compost piles or have the present ones work faster. With space being at a premium in many yards, the former is generally the better solution.

Composters have become ingenious in developing small ways of speeding up composting, however, hot composting is really the solution most have found effective. A regular compost pile may take two to four years to produce finished compost while a hot pile may need only two to four weeks.

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