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Healthy Soil = Healthy Garden
Amending your soil with compost this fall, strengthen your plants to weather the upcoming winter season. Although spring seems to be the right time to give a boost to our gardens, the best time to add the necessary nutrients to our soil is right before winter.
HOTBIN makes Composting easy by Maximizing what Nature Does Naturally
HOTBIN makes Composting easy by Maximizing what Nature Does Naturally. Composting allows you to become a better gardener as you watch your unavoidable food & garden waste turn into rich soil. Furthermore, you can add compost to your plants at any time, and plants will use exactly what they need when they need it. In other words, you cannot over-apply it.
Why should we care about food waste and composting?
Most people don’t realize how often they waste food and the negative impacts it can have for food security, the environment, and climate change. Home or Backyard Composting has been proven to be the most efficient and economical option over other alternatives as it reduces the costs associated with drop-off and pickup services for both, individuals, and governmental agencies, PLUS it does not involve gas emissions from transportation.
HOTBIN Hello Autumn NEWSLETTER
Hello Autumn: What materials might you find in your garden to compost?Autumn is a great time of the year to find plenty of compost-able material in the garden and get the HOTBIN operating at the higher end of hot composting temperatures. So, what materials might you find in your garden to compost during late summer and early autumn? Prune flowers, mow your lawn, cut-back evergreens, hardy geraniums, shrubs, etc., and add them to your compost pile. Don’t forget to add the indicated amount of shredded paper and mulch/wood-chips. >>Read More Composting is Nature’s Way of RecyclingI found an article that...
Fall... a Good Season for Composting
Fall is a good time to assess the damage caused to your garden during summer’s growing season and add compost to replace lost nutrients. Fall is also a good time to start composting to have your garden’s soil ready for spring planting.
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