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Slugs and Their Management, HYG-2010-95
... . Since slugs often like wilted or decaying plant material, do not place weed remains or fresh grass clippings in the garden. Place these into a composting area which is constantly turned for more ...
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Composting
... a layer of nitrogen-rich material. This can be fresh manure if available, fresh grass clippings (not too thick a layer, as they will mat), fresh hay, or succulent green weeds. Nitrogenous materials are necessary ... can use a plastic trash bag to compost relatively fine material such as leaves, lawn clippings or chopped garden refuse. Make layers as in a compost pile, or mix all materials ...
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SOIL AND FERTILIZER
... from landfills. Humus has an advantage over the use of unprocessed organic matter such as fresh grass clippings, garden debris, leaves, sawdust and wood chips. Microbes use nitrogen in the process of ... practically odorless. The only time an odor problem will arise is when thick layers of fresh grass clippings are added. TRENCH COMPOSTING Trench composting is a method of COLD COMPOSTING used for ...
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Botanical Garden | MUN Botanical Garden Compost Education Program
... in your pile. These include dry leaves and grass, straw, wood chips, sawdust, shredded paper, cardboard and egg cartons. Greens are fresh, moist materials rich in nitrogen. Nitrogen is vital for growth and reproduction of the decomposing organisms. Without it, they cannot break down materials high in carbon. Greens include fresh grass clippings, ...
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Botanical Garden | MUN Botanical Garden Compost Education Program
... fresh, moist materials rich in nitrogen. Nitrogen is vital for growth and reproduction of the decomposing organisms. Without it, they cannot break down materials high in carbon. Browns Greens Dry Leaves Fresh grass clippings Dry Grass Plant trimmings Straw Fruit / vegetable scraps Wood chips Houseplants Sawdust Tea ...
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Compost and what it is
... beginning of the pile. Over this I will toss all the clippings from the garden I have been piling up separatly. Then ... 'burn' plants if applied to them while fresh. Such materials might be manure and fresh grass clippings, or fresh green leaves. Once these materials are dried ... seems heavy and slimy (remember when you left a big pile of grass clippings behind the house for a week?) then you have way ...
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Tinker's Gardens — Vegetable Gardening - Crop Rotation
... in carbon known as browns. Consisting of woody dry materials such as dry grass clippings, dry leaves, woodchip, sawdust straw, hay, rice hulls, shredded newspaper, dry corn cobs ... high in nitrogen content known as greens. Consisting of green, wet materials like fresh grass clippings, kitchen wastes, fresh green weeds, kitchen vegetable waste, shredded newspaper, green vegetable garden waste and ...
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getting started - wild about gardening - CWF
... a great way to make the most of organic waste like grass clippings, weeds, and non greasy meal scraps. Just think of all those ... branches for ventilation. Next, add a 7-cm layer of grass clippings, leaves, or weeds, and then a layer of food scraps (no ... ; wood ash from a fireplace or wood stove; nut shells; and fresh grass clippings. Do compost carbon-rich brown materials, such as dry leaves; straw; ...
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getting started - wild about gardening - CWF
... a great way to make the most of organic waste like grass clippings, weeds, and non greasy meal scraps. Just think of all those ... branches for ventilation. Next, add a 7-cm layer of grass clippings, leaves, or weeds, and then a layer of food scraps (no ... ; wood ash from a fireplace or wood stove; nut shells; and fresh grass clippings. Do compost carbon-rich brown materials, such as dry leaves; straw; ...
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Organic Vegetable Gardening
... vegetable garden may offer toward a satisfying experience are fresh air, exercise, sunshine, knowledge, supplemental income, mental therapy, and fresh food, rich in vitamins and minerals, harvested at ... , but most popular materials are natural materials such as straw, leaves, pine straw, grass clippings, shrub clippings, garbage, fish scraps, water hyacinths, etc. A list of materials and what ...
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