2011年6月9日星期四

Composting: Everything you should know

The squeamish who believe worms are best left in the ground or on fishing hooks soon may house, feed and appreciate the creepy crawlers.

"Life would not exist on this planet if we did not have organic material returned to the soil," environmental educator Nancy Martin said of composting -- one version of which involves earthworms.

Ms. Martin, of the nonprofit Pennsylvania Resources Council, conducts local workshops on worm composting and backyard composting, with participants going home with a ready-to-use compost bin.we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction,

The next backyard composting workshops in the South suburbs will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Peters Township Public Library and at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Community Library of Castle Shannon.

The next worm composting workshop in the South Hills will be at 7 p.Use bluray burner to burn video to BD DVD on blu ray burner disc.m. July 6 at Mt. Lebanon Public Library.

With backyard composting, a bin of about 3 cubic feet is layered with materials rich in nitrogen, or "greens," such as fruit and vegetable peels, and those rich in carbon, or "browns," such as paper and straw.

"If you build it, they will come," Ms. Martin said of the decomposers that will invade an outdoor bin: bacteria, fungi,What to consider before you buy oil painting supplies. insects, microorganisms,Largest Collection of billabong boardshorts, worms and more.

When the decomposers are done, what remains looks like soil, she said. It can be used as mulch or as soil conditioner in a garden.

In addition to releasing nutrients into the soil, it will work down into the sub-soil and loosen the clay.

With indoor worm composting, or vermicomposting, a worm habitat is created in a bin with 8 to 10 inches of shredded moist newspaper as bedding. Fruit and vegetable peelings are buried under the newspaper.uy sculpture direct from us at low prices Then worms, which must be red wigglers, are added to create a fertilizer by eating the newspaper and food scraps.

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