Tag: Compost

Compost is a dark brown dirt-like substance used as a fertilizer, mulch and soil conditioner. It is produced when bacteria and fungi break down different sorts of organic waste such as kitchen scraps and garden debris. Making your own compost is easy, and just like recycling of which it is a form, composting is the right thing to do. Reasons to compost: 1) If you’re juicing regularly, you’re generating lots of vegetable scraps and pulp. Composting puts your kitchen scraps back into the soil and keeps them out of a landfill where they would otherwise create methane, a gas that pollutes the ground water. 2) Compost is a free, efficient, environmentally friendly alternative to high phosphorous chemical fertilizers that also ... Continue

When they germinate, seedlings emerge with one or two embryonic leaves called cotyledons. Then they put on their first post-embryonic leaves, known as “true leaves,” and that is when I deliver my transplants into the hands of the transplant nanny – a large grow light in my laundry room. A fan keeps the nursery fresh, and a boom box keeps my seedlings entertained. Today my little darlings are listening to Debussy. I imagine they prefer “Afternoon of a Fawn” and “Reverie.” I skip “Jeux de Vagues” (it will make them seasick), “Nuages” (too ominous) and “Fetes” (they’re not old enough to understand it.) At least I don’t talk to my plants. Which is more than you can say for the ... Continue