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How to Make Bokashi for your compost
A Short film about making Bokashi–a fermented wheat bran–used to pickle kitchen food waste to help it compost quicker without foul odors. Can also use to feed to animals into the garden or the septic...
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How to Vermi Compost
Short video showing you how to set-up your own worm compost system.
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How to Pot a Rhododendron
At this time of year many of us think about rhododendrons. Although the different types flower for a long period, it is in May that they really make an impact on gardens across the land. But...
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An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability
Peak Moment 51: Tour Scott McGuire’s “White Sage Gardens” in the back yard of his rental home — a demonstration site for suburban sustainability. He ponders, “How might a household produce and preserve...
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Assessing your garden
There are few places on earth where plants will not grow. Evolution has enabled them to come to terms with extremes of temperature and soil , rainfall and exposure. As a result, there are very few...
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This is a great old document from the CSIRO on composting. It is written for the home gardener but also has some great scientific information like the right carbon to nitrogen ratios(C/N ratio) for...
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How to Make Seedling Pots from Newspaper
The lovely Willi Galloway from eHow shows us how to create newspaper seedling pots from old newspapers. Try to only use black and white newspaper as they don’t have the chemicals which are found in...
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May Garden Calendar – Getting Ready for Winter
May is the month that sorts the gardeners out, and the month that heralds the completion of one of nature’s cycles; a time when autumn leaves crunch underfoot. Don’t burn off the leaves-this leads to...
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