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Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 8 May 23

The tree is packed and so is the ground covered with the fruits. There are no takers for the bell fruits that come up each season. Most houses have this tree and I have not seen anything selling them. Our compost pits are...

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Mr H Beats the Heat

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21504) • London, England 13 Jul 22

We are having a bit of a heat wave, right now. The temperature is in the low 80s, but forecast to climb as we go through the week and peaking this coming Monday. For Mr H, the garden cat, his house gets far too warm, but he has...

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What are you having for lunch today?

marguicha @marguicha (230334) • Chile 22 Aug 21

For me, lunch is the biggest meal of the day. So maybe I should ask you what you are having for dinner. I am planning on making some rice and having some sauteed veggies to go with it. I am thawing for tomorrow a chicken that I...

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Last Chance This Week To Rake Leaves

Marlina @marlina (154103) • Canada 15 Nov 15

This week is my last chance to rake leaves and bag them in those brown paper huge bags for composting. After that the city will stop the pick up until next April. So I guess I better get busy this week if I don't want to miss...

raking leaves

composting

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Do you compost

sofs @sofssu (23660) 15 Aug 15

I hate throwing out kitchen waste.. I compost all my kitchen waste and always have good organic manure at hand. I grow organic fruits, herbs and veggies. I often wish I had more space to compost what other people throw away. How...

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Composting

belindayhughes @belindayhughes (1096) • United States 1 Mar 13

My late grandmother, who was raised on a farm, is my inspiration for a lot of my gardening efforts. One of the things she taught me was composting. On the opposite side of the path from her garden she had a compost operation...

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gardening

manure

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I will be buying a new huse this year butr I intend to lput in an organic garden

oscarbartoni @oscarbartoni (2581) • United States 14 May 11

Depending on when I purchase the house, I might put in (or start) an organic garden this year, and by next year I should have plenty of crops to harvest for the year. I plan on getting [plenty of well rotted manure of different...

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Let's Talk Garbage

Amber @AmbiePam (120533) • United States 21 Apr 10

One might call it trash, someone else might call it garbage. Whatever you call it, it stinks. I don't have a garbage disposal, so any leftovers go in the trash. I use odor control garbage bags. I think someone who lives in...

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Fall Composting

shiloh62 @shiloh62 (46) • United States 9 Nov 09

If you are a gardener like me, you've probably spent the first half of this fall composting. I could never get the complete answer on this. Should I cover my compost pile in winter? I never did before and it seems fine,but some...

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gardening

recycle

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Composting

Bab5215 @Bab5215 (3) • United States 24 Jun 09

You know I love composting. This is nature's way of recycling. Do you know that you could compost lint. Check out; http://www.squidoo.com/ApartmentComposting There is a list of things you would never believe you could compost...

How to compost

Brenda @wahmbrenda (141) • United States 27 Mar 09

Lots of people are talking about organic gardening and composting. I read a lot about it and it seems difficult. However,I seen that all you need to do is find a spot; lay down some leaves, grass clippings, dead plant material and...

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how to compost

paying to put garbage out to the road

poppoppop111 @poppoppop111 (5731) • Canada 26 Feb 09

are you for this or against and do you have to do it. where i live we don't but i now some people who have to buy garbage tags. so you have to put them out on your bags to put them by the road for the garbage man to take them. i...

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how can i make a compost pit?

katemeow @katemeow (847) • Singapore 23 Jun 08

hi! i live in a condo unit and i feel that we have so much food wastage. i am planning to make a compost pit but i plan to put them in pots. we have no backyard with soil since we are on the 7th floor. i have tried doing research...

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How many people have compost piles?

oscarbartoni @oscarbartoni (2581) • United States 26 Mar 08

I have been putting my compostable materials right on the garden to be turned over in the spring and broken down by bacteria and earthworms. I do not have the room for a compost pile so I compost right in the garden. Several years...

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do you use a composter? need your opinion, then...

seagoddess28 @seagoddess28 (873) • Canada 10 Jul 07

My hubby and I went to buy additional blue (recycling)boxes and saw some composters for sale. We had been thinking about them before, but were worried about attracting vermin and raccoons. Have you used composters? Please share...

composting

recycling

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Composting and our city's co-composter

breepeace @breepeace (3014) • Canada 6 May 07

I just started composting this year, and I went to a seminar on Wednesday on the how-tos. The presenter is a master composter for the City of Edmonton, and she mentioned that our city has the largest co-composter in the...

composting

edmonton

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Compost Heaps versus Worm Farms...

dodoguy @dodoguy (1292) • Australia 26 Dec 06

Can anyone clarify the difference between a compost heap and a worm far? I have read material on worm farms which often seems to imply that the worm farms just live in a compost heap, but by my understanding, a compost heap...

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