Composting tools are often taken for granted or overlooked entirely in the larger gardening scheme, but their importance shouldn’t be ignored.
Regardless of your ultimate goal, the composting process is easier if you have the right equipment. Numerous manufacturers offer a variety of devices that make composting in any style simpler.
Using traditional heap/pile methods for making nutrient rich high quality compost at home, as you will be aware, can take more than four months!
Who’s got time to wait around for that?
It certainly frustrated me….hence
(i) My in-depth investigations into alternatives….
(ii) My subsequent conversion into a ‘yimby tumbling composter’
(iii) The reason I was voted by the Bovees team to write this yimby compost tumbler review.
Poop is not a subject people like to talk about. Whether it is from an animal or a human, it’s stinky, looks disgusting, and is a thoroughly repulsive subject of conversation. But there are so many good things about it that avoiding the discussion is like taking a dump on an easily accessible bounty of natural resources.
If you have a small garden with a compost pit, you are likely to be looking for materials that go into it. When it comes to dog waste, you don’t think of it as anything more than just a discardable element of your life. And typically, it ends up in a plastic bag that finds its way to a landfill.
When it comes to gardening, potting soils are extremely important for proper growth of plants, especially if you are using raised beds or containers to grow your plants.
Whether outdoors or indoors, you need good quality potting soil to make sure that your plants flourish. For proper plant growth, your plants need enough nutrients and a good environment to grow and be healthy. This makes proper potting soil critical to the success or failure of the growth of your plants.
As we’re sure you already know, compost is a vital part of successful gardening. Compost helps us improve soil quality, and fine-tune the balance of specific nutrients and moisture, required by specific plants. It goes without saying then, that we actually need a variety of different composts….and there are many! See our buyer’s guide below … Read more
Coffee drinking is a habit people nurture around the world. But that also directly translates to just as much coffee waste being generated for every batch of coffee you make.
But if you could decompose your coffee filters and grounds, returning the organic matter back to where it came from — nature — that would reduce the environmental burden on the process by a lot.
So, can you throw your coffee machine filters into a compost pile and put the waste to better use? Let’s find the answer!
From the outside, composting isn’t something a lot of people want to think about.
A lot of them also don’t want to think about the amount of waste they are creating and what it is doing to the planet.
But if you have a small garden, you start thinking about organic ways to feed your garden, and from that comes the “gem” of an idea for natural fertilizer.