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How To Speed Up Composting: 10 Tips For Faster Results
Composting is a great way to recycle organic waste into nutrient-rich soil, but sometimes it can take longer than expected. If you're looking to speed up the process, here are 10 tips to help you achieve faster composting results.
10 Tips to Speed Up Composting:
1. Chop or Shred Materials: Cut or shred larger pieces of organic matter to increase surface area.
2. Balance Greens and Browns: Maintain the right ratio of green (nitrogen-rich) and brown (carbon-rich) materials for efficient decomposition.
3. Turn Your Pile Regularly: Aerate your compost by turning it every few weeks to encourage oxygen flow.
4. Keep it Moist: Maintain moisture in your compost pile, but avoid over-wetting.
5. Add a Compost Accelerator: Use natural compost accelerators like worm castings or commercial products.
6. Choose a Warm Location: Compost works best in warmer temperatures, so place your pile in a sunny spot.
7. Use a Compost Bin: A well-contained compost bin can retain heat and moisture, speeding up the process.
8. Include Small Materials: Include small, finely chopped materials like leaves, grass clippings, or paper for quicker breakdown.
9. Add Manure: Adding manure from herbivores (cow, horse, etc.) can speed up the process due to its nitrogen content.
10. Monitor Temperature: Keep track of your compost’s temperature to ensure it’s staying warm enough for rapid decomposition.
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Ready to transform your waste into rich, fertile soil? Start composting faster today and boost your garden's growth! 🌿💪#gardening
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"Instead of paying $700 to have stump removed, just core it out, drill a hole for drainage and make it a rustic planter." #gardening
“If we give ourselves a half an hour a day, with our creativity, our dreams, our music, the soul becomes quiet. We are in our bodies and we feel nourished.”
~ Marion Woodman
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Tomatoes Hate Cucumbers: Secrets Of Companion Planting and Popular Planting Combinations 🍅🥒👇
1. Differing Water Needs: Cucumbers need consistent moisture to remain juicy and sweet, while tomatoes thrive in drier soil conditions once they’re established. Overwatering tomatoes to meet cucumber needs can cause root diseases due to waterlogged soil.
2. Space and Light Competition: Cucumbers are vigorous climbers or sprawlers that can overshadow tomatoes, limiting their essential sunlight exposure vital for healthy fruit development.
3. Risk of Disease Transmission: Both tomatoes and cucumbers are vulnerable to diseases like powdery mildew and bacterial wilt. Growing them close can accelerate the spread of these diseases.
Ideal Companions for Tomatoes and Cucumbers
1. For Tomatoes:
Basil: Enhances tomato flavor while repelling flies and mosquitoes.
Marigolds: Keep away nematodes and other garden pests.
Carrots: Help loosen the soil, facilitating better air and water flow around the tomato roots.
2. For Cucumbers:
Radishes: Act as a deterrent against cucumber beetles.
Sunflowers: Provide a natural trellis for cucumber vines and attract pollinators.
Lettuce: Benefits from the shade provided by cucumber plants, which helps keep the root environment cool. (credit: homemade haven on Facebook) #gardening
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"Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day,
and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - Collected Poems and Translations, 1847
Art: Janie Olsen
"From birth, your tongue is actually connected to your toes through an intricate network of connective tissue known as fascia.
If your tongue is not resting correctly in your mouth due to mouth breathing, things can get out of alignment in your mouth and the rest of your body.
Tongue posture can lead to a foot imbalance and vice versa because the tongue guides all myofascial continuity structures that run from the inner arch of the foot up through the middle of the body to the tongue and jaw muscles.
When the tongue sits on top of the palate, it seals the oral cavity and holds the throat open like a tent. These muscles support the neck, keep your posture straight, help you breathe, and maintain your posture upright.
Your tongue also acts as a rudder and support system through a fascial line, and when the tongue is down, we breathe through our mouth, and the head falls forward due to lack of support, which leads to poor posture and increased energy expenditure."
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"How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?,"
-Mister Rogers
Artist: Julianna Bibor
"Sometimes, you have to figure out who you aren’t to realize who you are.
Sometimes, you have to understand what a good relationship isn’t to understand what is.
Sometimes, you have to walk alone to understand the value of your inner circle, you have to be rejected to appreciate acceptance, and you have to get a little lost in order to understand what path is really yours.
Sometimes, you have to identify everything you don’t want before you can claim everything you do."
Author|Brianna Wiest,
🎨Artist|Andrea Kowch, "Solitude"
Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg, 1593/94 – Delft, 7 March 1657)
💠 Still Life with Flowers in a Vase, Shells and a Grasshopper. Oil on oak panel, circa 1630, 47 x 36.8 cm, 📍National Gallery, London. #art
This makes me want to paint again but I would need the cooperation of a spider.
Painting: 'Sunset' by Kim Hyerim
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#parenting
“When a light shines as bright as yours
It can never truly fade
When a spirit is as joyful and radiant as yours
It can never truly disappear
When a voice is as powerful as yours
It can never truly leave
When a soul is as beautiful as yours
It can never truly be forgotten
And when a love is as precious as yours
It can never truly be lost."
- dedicated to all of those we love who have left us but are never truly lost.
~ Tahlia Hunter
Art: Hannah Willow
