I Went Looking for Composting Videos and Look What I Found

I have so many yard clippings, leaves, and grass clippings that I needed a quick and cheap way to make the best use of it. I again started looking for articles with good ideas, for making a quick cheap compost and found CaliKim29. I loved her videos on composting. She made it look easy and did not require a compost bin.

CaliKim29 made composting look fun and easy. Her videos let me know where I had been missing it with my composting efforts.

I will update this post on how well this worked for us. If you have some composting tips feel free to share below in comments. 

I found it very interesting that a reader on the video posted a comment that leaving the leaves in the clear bags will actually work better, so I decided to try both and see which works better.

CaliKim has an awesome website check it out. She has lots of tips on gardening and growing healthy foods.

How to Compost Without a Compost Bin

This info-graphic is handy tool for knowing what scraps to scrap for composting.

Source: Fix.com

Time to Revamp those Compost Piles

Well, if you've been collecting scraps and adding them to you compost pile all Summer long you should have a nice little compost pile going, if not it's never too late to get started.

Start by piling all your dead leaves, dead plants, old mulch, and any other organic matter. Heap it all in a nice pile, moisten with a mist of water and cover with heavy black tarp to help hold in heat.



You can add to it this Fall and don't worry about it freezing this Winter, it just helps the break down process for the bigger and harder pieces of wood.

If you already have a pile that has started to break down from this Spring you can store it in old unused pots and containers for next year. I just keep two piles in different stages of decomp.

Six Points to Consider in Organic Gardening

 Organic gardening is the way of growing vegetables and fruits with the use of things only found in nature. 

Why would one want to indulge in organic gardening?

1. One can easily make compost from garden and kitchen waste. Though this is a bit more time-consuming than buying prepared chemical pesticides and fertilizers, it certainly helps to put garbage to good use and so saves the environment.

2. Organic farming does not use chemicals that may have an adverse effect on your health. This is especially important when growing vegetables. Chemical companies tell us that the chemicals we use are safe if used according to direction, but research shows that even tiny amounts of poisons absorbed through the skin can cause such things as cancer, especially in children.