compost

Planting Day

May 4, 2009 Ben Garden

Living in a tropical environment has its benefits such as lots of rain, plenty of warm weather and great lightning shows, the best of all is the great weather during the ‘Dry Season’ or winter as it is more commonly known in all other parts of Australia. Being a long weekend the garden has had [...]

0 compost, seaside daisy, snapdragons, tropical gardening

Compost Tumbler Update

May 4, 2009 Ben DIY, Garden

It’s been 14 days since I filled my Tumbleweed Compost Tumbler with grass clippings and horse manure. With a tumble or two each day the contents became very hot (too hot to touch one day) and has turned to a nice earthy brown colour with a sweet smell. The heat generated in the bin will [...]

3 compost, compost bin, compost tumbler

How to Compost – Videos

December 7, 2008 Ben DIY

Sitting in the airport yesterday while being delayed, there happened to be a free wifi connection available (thanks Qantas Club!). 7 hours of delay gave me plenty of time to browse through some great YouTube videos on my iPod Touch. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This one armed [...]

4 compost, composting, composting video, making compost

10 free garden boosting activites

December 7, 2008 Ben DIY, Garden

While sitting on an aeroplane a couple of days ago, I came up with a list of things that I could do when I got home that will not cost much to do, and will boost my garden. Collect horse manure – My friend owns two horses, I regularly go and ‘clean up’ her paddock [...]

0 animal manure, compost, garden edging, lawn aeration, leaf mulch, potash, propagate plants, tomato frame, water saving, weed tea

Hot Compost

November 11, 2008 Ben Garden

After taking a holiday to an eco tourism resort on and island national park, I came to realise that even though we try to live pretty green at our house, I have been lazy with my wastage. (The time at the resort was very relaxing thank you very much.) My worm farm has slowed down [...]

0 compost, compost bin, hot compost

Best Compost Recipe

October 23, 2007 Ben Garden

Lately I’ve been slack and have not been composting at home. Not because of the lack of material to compost, but due to the lack of a composting vessel. After cleaning out my shed I found a 65 litre black polly garbage bin (trash can), which had a crack in the bottom. Instead of throwing [...]

0 compost, compost bin