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| Joe Lampl on Growing a Greener World has anothe very good show. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Compost
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| That was a good one. Thanks for the link. |
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- Posted by TheMasterGardener1 5B (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 21:23
| A fun fact I learned from this video- 25% of the stuff in our lanfills could of been composted. Think of how much one could save on having to buy fertilizer or more compost. I compost leaves. This fall I got tons of leaves for composting. |
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| Serious composters make use of paper, cardboard, natural fibers, food waste, PLUS yard debris. They even make their grocery purchases with composting in mind. |
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| I consider myself a "serious" composter and have never put paper, cardboard (same thing as paper) or natural fibers in my compost bins prefering to utilize them on the planting beds. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 14:56
| The point is that you are using them, not allowing that resource to escape your property wasted. I prefer to use cardboard this way too, weed suppression. Also makes a good bottom layer for starting a new compost pile. This year, I'm putting the 5-15 sheets per day of paper my kid brings home from school in a giant 55-gallon plastic bin, to make sure it doesn't blow around. Made a game out of balling each one up so it's not just a stack of airless "brown" stuff. Adding greens as they come, usually from kitchen. I'm finished walking to the main pile until spring except for occasions when I bring home bags of other people's OM. |
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