Composting is a year-round activity because even when our gardens are quiet, we produce organic waste from our homes every day, regardless of the season. How much kitchen waste do you generate each day? I fill half to one icecream tub a day of coffee grounds, tea bags, banana skins, apple cores, pecan nut shells, …
If you are going away, add more dry ‘brown’, carbon-rich materials and tumble. Make use of the leaves littering your lawn. You can easily leave your YOLO for a week or more without worry. When you get back, tumble more frequently (opening the lid between tumbles to let fresh air in) and add more dry …
My veggie seedlings sleep in my YOLO Compost Tumbler at night to benefit from the warm, moist and humid environment. These broadbean seedlings are 2.5 weeks since planting. Nights are getting much colder as winter sets in. I’ve found that my seedling trays don’t dry out. This shell contains mostly grass cuttings and dry shredded …
Compost tumbling is, like hot bins, heaps, stacks and cages, a natural composting process. What makes compost tumbling effective is that the tumbling mixes and aerates the contents – this is why the composting process is faster than the others. There are only four factors that influence your compost: Carbon (from mostly dry materials) Nitrogen …
Autumn is here! Love those leaves by doing something useful with them. Rake them, shred them and save ’em to use in your YOLO Compost Tumbler throughout the year as a carbon-rich material. No shredding machine? No problem! Use your lawnmower to shred dry autumn leaves. These photos show you how to do this. What …
Chris Wilcock recently moved and he has been hard at work establishing a new vegetable garden. When Lisa bumped into him this past weekend, he remarked on how much better the bed with YOLO compost is doing than the bed into which he dug regular store-purchased compost. Chris kindly sent us some photos and comments on …
YOLO compost out performs commercial compost in Chris’ veggie garden Read More »
Jeremy is having mixed success with his composting. His wife doesn’t always chop up the stuff that she drops into their YOLO Compost Tumbler – like tossing in a whole brinjal that went off. His children added some really big, tough leaves from their garden just as they started to add contents to their YOLO. …
The next time you wonder just what to do with the drifts of autumn leaves in your garden and along the pavements of your neighbourhood, watch this humorous and informative 17-minute TED talk by Mike McGrath. The title “Everything You Know About Composting is Wrong” doesn’t do justice to his passion for autumn leaves and …
Maintaining a healthy compost comes down to five basics. These include the ingredients that you put into your compost, the size of the material, moisture, temperature and air.
Newspaper and cardboard – as well as egg cartons – can be composted. They are ‘brown’, carbon-rich materials and they help to absorb moisture. But, not all papers are the same and some are bad for your compost.
