This year, to celebrate Earth Day, I ordered a big pile of Earth and had it dumped in my driveway.

What...? Isn't that what your supposed to do?

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to Earth_Day, compost on 2008-04-23, 06:49:36

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, tools on 2008-04-12, 06:16:50

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Here's a quick peek inside my composter. There are layers of garden waste layered below the current level. I go on walks to find old leaves to add to the layers since most of my garden waste is green. . ..

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Posted by earlysnowdrop Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-04-11, 06:40:38

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Used coffee grounds can easily be recycled, by mixing them into your compost pile. If you don't drink much coffee, maybe you'd like a free source of used coffee grounds....

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They say that there's no such thing as bad press but after reading this article at the BBC, I'm not so sure anymore.

I've always said that the more we hear about compost in the news, the better it is for everyone. You know, to get the word out that it's good for the environment and all. Well I may have to retract that statement now. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-04-10, 06:45:38

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Several years ago my sweet brother made this double stalled compost bin for me. Pretty handy because its easy to turn the compost by just forking it from one side to the other. It is all screwed together; screws being the only way to go. The bins are 3' x 4' x 3' deep. The spacers on the slidy-slat front are wine corks. . . .

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Posted by weeder1 Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-04-08, 07:04:25

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-04-03, 07:17:10

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Wow! What can I say… There were over 5,000 entries for the composter giveaway and I think that I had a record number of comments on that post. The Composter Giveaway is now closed and a winner has been selected. Robert Fantom from New York is the proud winner of the Urban Compost Bin Tumbler. He. . .

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Posted by Hanna Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, tools on 2008-04-02, 06:17:18

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If you took a look in my Kitchen Compost Crock, no matter what day of the week it was, you'd probably find coffee grinds (with the filters) and egg shells. In fact you could even rename my crock, the coffee grind and egg shell holder and that would be okay with me. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-03-28, 18:14:49

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I was looking over the Compost Bin stats the other day and noticed that lots of people who are searching for the keywords "Buy Compost New Jersey" wind up at my site. So it's probably a good idea to help those people out. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-03-26, 06:02:47

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Posted by Elizabeth Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-03-24, 17:53:01

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What I love about this article from Green-Talk.com on how to compost old coffee grounds is the way it captures a process that is played out again and again, wherever...

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In this video, Bentley “The Compost Guy” Christie is being interviewed by GreenerBusiness about compost. I recently discovered his blog and have been glued to his Bokashi updates. I've been meaning to try Bokashi for a while now but couldn't really find any good instructions until I found The Compost Guy blog.

In the video he discusses starting compost, worm composting and Bokashi. If you're like me and starved for any form of gardening and sick of the cold weather and snow, then it's definitely worth a view.

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-03-07, 06:21:46

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One of the coolest things about being a garden blogger is that I get free stuff. Which sometimes doesn’t seem quite right. I get free stuff just for fretting and philosophizing about plants online. When did the world get that cool? The Scottish part of me is just in free heaven. Sometimes, I get free stuff. . .

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Posted by Hanna Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-03-06, 05:48:18

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Here's a cool composting project that my wife would never let me try in a million years.

What's that honey? You ran out of hot water in the shower? Okay, let me go throw some coffee grinds on the compost pile and that'll get it cooking again. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-03-04, 17:58:27

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-03-03, 00:33:37

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The other day I was wandering around Costco during my lunch break, enjoying a nice buffet of free samples, when I saw something that almost made me drop my Swedish meatball. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-02-29, 18:04:53

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Posted by Elizabeth Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-02-28, 18:07:14

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As a coffee lover, I was delighted when I first learned coffee grounds could be used in the garden. There was a while there when "they" were saying that...

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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-02-18, 19:31:45

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Whenever the authorities come knocking on my door, I quickly grab my secret documents and start shredding them. Oh wait, that's not me, I think that was in a movie that I saw recently. That's right, I'm just the guy that shreds paper for the compost bin. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-02-12, 19:03:03

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After a recent Gardening Australia episode informed me that compost was NOT suitable as a mulch, I was faced with a new reality requiring a paradigm shift from my current thinking.

Or did I?

Are GA reporters infallible and can their advice be trusted without question? Hmmm... it was time to think this one through a little more. . . .

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Posted by Stuart Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, mulch on 2008-01-22, 18:55:24

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Now here's a good idea that's almost ready for prime time. You may have heard that they can now make biodegradable plastic using corn. So the whole supermarket paper or plastic argument may be going away sometime soon. But did you know your next picnic or BBQ could become more green too? All you need is some compostable cutlery. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-01-21, 18:13:30

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Using compost in caring for landscape plants is still touted in magazines and newspapers. What bothers me is the assumption in many of these articles that lots and lots of folks still make their own compost. In fact, the opposite is true -- few people make their own compost anymore, and few use compost in their yards.

Backyard composting came into its own in the 1970s along with recycling, exploding fuel prices and communes. Back then, I was sucked into the wonderfulness of making your own compost. Being obsessive in most activities, I made lots and lots of compost each year -- enough to more than fill a large pickup truck. . . .

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Posted by jeffball@usol.com (Jeff Ball) Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-01-18, 05:56:10

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Here's an awesome quote that I just found while going over the articles Google sent me. You find a lot of interesting things in the news when you have a Google Alert for Compost. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-01-17, 17:55:46

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Let's face it, compost needs a makeover. The only press that compost gets is when there's a neighborhood battle over a stinky compost bin. You don't hear teens at the mall saying things like, "Dude, compost is the awesome!" Even Al Gore really didn't mention much about compost during his many speeches and events that helped him earn a Nobel Prize. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-01-16, 05:51:30

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(To paraphrase UB40 ...) Some months ago I was working on the plot when I heard a rustling coming from the compost heap. I am not one of those people who jumps on a chair at the merest hint of a mouse, but my skin crawled at the sight of a rat crawling through my kitchen and garden waste. I left the rat to it, hoping that it would fall prey to the regular baiting programme in place on my allotment site to deal with the pest problem. But this week I was reminded of the issue of rats on...

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Posted by Jane Perrone Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, pests on 2008-01-15, 18:07:33

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I love my compost pile, but how can I control the gnats and flies that swarm around it? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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Posted by The Old Farmer's Almanac Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, pests on 2008-01-13, 18:31:58

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I have been off today. It was a day of cleaning up the Alley that runs behind the garden.The neighbours two doors away had decimated the hedge but left the shredded branches and leaves along the path (except for their own bit if alley).
I collected the woody bits and big stemmed branches and moved them into the sanctuary behind the Wall. This strip is a buffer zone between the building site and the alley way alongside the houses. . . .

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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2008-01-10, 18:26:44

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Posted by inadvertentgardener Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, weather on 2008-01-05, 00:25:18

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Just found this blog, dedicated to news from the world (and yes, it is a world) of composting toilets. If you want to have your very own composting toilet, perhaps in the garden to save those "tramping in the house with muddy boots" moments, you can even build your own, as volunteers at Oxford Community Garden did. There's also more links and resources at Scietch blog. Let's just say this is - unfortunately - way, way down my to-do list, languishing with things I'd love to do in my dreams, like building my own log cabin in the wilderness, that...

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Posted by Jane Perrone Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs, compost on 2007-12-21, 19:44:19

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Now this compost bin may look like almost identical to the other one but it's contents are very different. The big bin is 100% leaves. No grass, no coffee grinds, no plants, no boat, no life, no motorcar. Now this smaller compost bin is a completely different animal. It starts with a generous base layer of leaves, then the core is almost completely vegetable garden waste, and I top it off with more leaves. Sort of a end of the season garden sandwich. And that's a great way to make compost. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-12-13, 00:28:32

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-12-12, 00:39:08

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My garden maintenance area is finally well under way. After years of moving temporary compost bins around as each section of the garden was landscaped they have now taken up their final residence behind the kid's cubby house.

This is one of only two sections left that still need to landscaped. This area will eventually cater for our vegetables and aquaponics setup but will most likely be the last area completed. We're still researching the whole backyard aquaponics deal and are noticing many others are starting to take it up - so we can learn from their successes and mistakes. . . .

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Because this is the first time i have had a garden, it is also my first time composting and i can't wait to see how it turns out. I got the bin free from the council and i gotta say i love the whole composting idea, helping the environment and hopefully getting rich sweet smelling compost for the plants next season. . . .

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Posted by gardening _sister Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-30, 00:59:13

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A full day of leaf shredding has the 3-bin compost system full to overflowing. What a great feeling to have that done. Plenty more leaves will be falling, have fallen, since yesterday, but the rest will just have stay where they land, or maybe they'll blow across the street into the neighbor's yard. Or maybe the bins will settle down a bit and I'll be able to fit some more in... they seem to do that at this time of year. . . .

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Posted by CapeCodGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-27, 00:18:32

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i have way too many oak leaves piled up. i know they're acidic and take forever to decompose. any organic way to speed up the decomp?
many just pines and oaks around me. also i assume these are good for the blueberry's and any thing else that likes acid

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Posted by George Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, foliage on 2007-11-26, 00:11:17

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If you have ever considered adding road kill to your compost this article which was published in 2006 makes interesting reading. The roads here are littered daily with the carcasses of ferrel cats, badgers, wild boar and birds. The policy of the junta seems to be not to remove the dead animals, which are crushed by the volume of traffic and the remains scavenged by other wild creatures. . . .

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Posted by Colin & Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-17, 06:27:02

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I don't think I've ever really thought about whether there are good or bad times of the year to add compost to the garden - until this past weekend. I have always focused on how great fresh "home-made" compost is for an organic garden and just added it whenever it became available.

This weekend I was delighted to find that I had a lot of compost ready so I began top dressing some of my garden beds. Much of my pile behind the garden had fully broken down and the batch of organic matter that I put in my new compost tumbler at the beginning of the season was completely ready!. . .

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Posted by Marc Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-15, 18:21:52

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From Bette Midler:

"My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap."

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Posted by About the Artist... Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-15, 06:23:20

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Posted by Colleen Vanderlinden (nospam@example.com) Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, foliage, mulch on 2007-11-15, 05:55:32

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I'm trying realy hard to stick to my regime of cleaning the horse pasture. Four barrowloads on Saturday, same on Sunday and two today. I almost cried with relief when Chris said he'd be taking his three in at night...

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Posted by Rosemary Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-13, 18:20:31

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Our latest WAMU Metro Connection gardening segment is now online here. If the link moves, you can always go to wamu.org then put in my last name "Jentz" in their search option. . . .

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-12, 00:43:53

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For the last several weeks I've been fretting over what to do with all the garden debris currently laying around making a mess of my front and back yard. Here's all the stuff I need to get rid of but just can bring myself to throw away. . . .

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Posted by Gina Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-11, 00:40:19

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My garden currently contains only a few brassicas and greens but the main crop in my Fall garden is always compost!

I know that compost is not a flower or a vegetable but I think of it as a crop because it is sooooo important to the life of all the other plants. . . .

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Posted by Marc Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-11-11, 00:31:01

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Posted by Amy Reblogged by Old Roses to compost, environment on 2007-11-10, 00:24:38

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We fell for the hype and bought a Back Porch ComposTumbler, for $250. Doug is right, it doesn't heat up much, but eventually everything rots enough. . .

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