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Why Compost Is Essential to Container Gardens (article)

Recently I was trying to learn more about how to turn my balcony into a healthy, useful garden...and that's when I found balconycontainergardening.com . Since I'm a complete newbie when it comes to gardening, I ended up spending hours reading articles on the site, which prompted me to write a letter of kudos to the owner, Cassandra Radcliff. I also asked her if she'd like to host some articles for my readers. :) I was extremely pleased when she wrote back with a yes, and now she will be periodically contributing guest articles. I often receive questions from readers pertaining to gardening, so now I hope to address some of those questions while at the same time learning from her in the process. Below is her first contribution to the…

Plastic Worm Bin-07-12-12 (article)

I'm a regular reader of Bentley Christie's redwormcomposting.com and he just posted recently about his new worm bin aging experiment...check it out: http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/plastic-worm-bin-07-12-12/ As he demonstrates, it's really important to add your materials long before you get your worms so the insides are nice and damp (but no pooling on the bottom) and the contents are mixed up evenly. I had my bin for a few months, but the upkeep on it got to be a little much for me, and that's when I switched to the Worm Inn...no more moisture issues with that thing. Although I recently skipped town for a little over a week, and when I came back I thought my worms were all dead from a dried out system...luckily I still had time in this 100F+…

Is Composting Endorsed Where You Live?

Today I stumbled upon the Wormcycler Municipal Program, which ties your municipality into a worm composting program by subsidizing part of the costs to get started while promoting the benefits of vermicomposting. I wonder how effective their program has been, and if anyone in my home city of Philadelphia has actually done this. If you haven't noticed, I happen to like composting and want everyone to do it. While I keep asking and pushing for curbside compost pickup in Philadelphia (which I'm told won't happen), people can do it themselves at home, which is probably the better option anyway. Or start a community collection point for compost...Philadelphia just opened one in my neighborhood (video/article to come shortly!). It frustrates me to no end that composting isn't expanding more rapidly, especially…