Composting Hay And Straw
Composting hay and straw is a fantastic way to boost the amount of carbon in your compost pile. And to dispose of either material after it has been used for animal bedding or garden mulch! Straw and…
How To Protect Container Plants From Frost
Protecting container plants from frost is vital in some regions, if you want your cold tender plants to survive until spring. There are several ways of going about it, depending on the size of the container and…
What’s Happening Inside Your Compost Pile?
What’s going on inside your compost pile? It may look pretty inert from the outside, but the interior of a well-maintained compost bin is a hotbed of activity. Of course you can make great compost without understanding…
My Experience Of Setting Up A Worm Farm
Setting up a worm farm is something I’ve been interested in for several years now, and this month I finally got to turn my wriggly dreams into reality. Before taking the plunge I’d read a lot of…
Composting In A Small Space
Composting in a small space sounds a bit like wishful thinking, doesn’t it? When you picture a compost pile, it’s likely to be one of those big ones, at least 3 feet tall, deep, and wide. And…
Propagating Satin Pothos
Propagating satin pothos is the easiest thing in the world. Also known as silver vine, satin pothos is not actually a type of pothos at all, but a closely related cousin. It’s easy and relatively quick to…
How To Care For A Maidenhair Fern In Winter
Understanding how to care for a maidenhair fern in the winter is a new problem for me. I’ve owned no less than three of them over the years, but the first two both met crispy deaths in…
Choosing The Right Composting Containers For Your Yard
Let’s start out by saying that you don’t have to have any kind of container, to get started with composting. You can in fact simply make a compost pile straight onto the ground. And there are pros…
First Steps In Composting – An Introduction For Beginners
My family regard my enthusiasm for composting with some amusement. They’d probably say, if pressed, that it’s verging on an obsession! But here’s the thing. Composting is a fascinating subject and so much more interesting than just…
How To Get The Humidity Right For Your Houseplants
Getting humidity right for houseplants is always going to be something of a compromise. Many of our most popular houseplants were originally tropical rainforest or jungle plants and their preference is for very high levels of humidity…