Hani also introduced me to his kids – his Nubian goats’ offspring, that is. I visited a few weeks after they were born. The front yard had been transformed into a goats’ playground, as the young kids bounced, leaped, trotted, skipped and climbed on top of anything. They were in con...
Soil - put your kitchen scraps to good use: Make your own compost. While there are highly advanced ways of composting, an easy way to start is in your kitchen. Throw coffee grounds, vegetable peels, eggshells and other scraps into a small compost pail and use the rubbish as mulch. Plants...
Soil - put your kitchen scraps to good use: Make your own compost. While there are highly advanced ways of composting, an easy way to start is in your kitchen. Throw coffee grounds, vegetable peels, eggshells and other scraps into a small compost pail and use the rubbish as mulch. Plants...
Compostable waste is turned into a nutritious soil conditioner, and this is then used in thebioremediationof brownfield sites. It’s easy to get started withhome compostingfor a zero-waste garden. All you need is a compost bin, some outdoor space, and time. The composting cycle works on o...
THE PURSUIT of perfection in tomatoes can be an elusive goal: The foliage gets spotty or yellow and may even start dropping; fruits may be reluctant to set, or slow to ripen, or disfigured in some frustrating way. But on we soldier against the odds because the juicy payoff is an ...
Once a rose contracts rose rosette, it cannot be cured. Once a rose bush has contracted rose rosette, it should be removed from a garden to prevent the spread to healthy plants. Diseased plants should either be burned or bagged and removed. Control the spread of mites that carry the diseas...
Soil - put your kitchen scraps to good use: Make your own compost. While there are highly advanced ways of composting, an easy way to start is in your kitchen. Throw coffee grounds, vegetable peels, eggshells and other scraps into a small compost pail and use the rubbish as mulch. Plants...
Soil - put your kitchen scraps to good use: Make your own compost. While there are highly advanced ways of composting, an easy way to start is in your kitchen. Throw coffee grounds, vegetable peels, eggshells and other scraps into a small compost pail and use the rubbish as mulch. Plants...
Soil - put your kitchen scraps to good use: Make your own compost. While there are highly advanced ways of composting, an easy way to start is in your kitchen. Throw coffee grounds, vegetable peels, eggshells and other scraps into a small compost pail and use the rubbish as mulch. Plants...
hospital epidemiologist at the University of Florida Health. “Organic farms are more likely to use compost or manure rather than commercially bought fertilizers. If the compost is not properly processed such that pathogens naturally present in animal stool survive, the soil ...