Compost

Are you a gardener looking to enlist millions upon millions of tiny helpers to get your flowers and vegetables to grow larger and healthier? Then look no further than compost. Also known as "Gardener's Gold", compost is a soil amendment, a fertilizer, a mulch and much, much more.

I am a compost enthusiast to say the least. Why else would I run a blog called Compost Bin if I didn't think the stuff was gold. You can check out my latest compost and gardening related posts here.

Compost Blogs

Garden Update: banana-tree-hail-damage Here'sa great gardening tidbit that you don't often see in gardening books. Frozen ice balls falling from the sky for almost an hour are really not a good thing to happen to plants. So you should try to avoid ...
Growing Kohlrabi: Kohl rabi Image via Wikipedia. Since I've got a lot of free space in the vegetable garden lately, I've been on the look out for something interesting to try growing. Sometimes I'll go to the store to buy tiki torch fuel and I wind up ...
Garden Damage: Well here it is, the middle of June and I don't have a vegetable garden anymore. The day before the hail storm in New Jersey, I had tomatoes, peppers, squash, zucchini, rhubarb, corn and more but now I have nothing but shredded wheat. ...
June Hailstorm: Just when I think I've got the yard word under control mother nature decides that there's a lot more to do. Northern New Jersey was pummeled by a freak hailstorm yesterday that not only left several inches of ice on the ground but also ...

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Compost Videos

How to make compost

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Compost Information and Articles

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Compost Forums

Discuss your decomposing waste with others who will actually enjoy the conversation.

Garden Web - Soil, Compost & Mulch Forum: Join the compost wackos (that's what they call themselves) on their adventures stealing other peoples leaves and trying to compost everything under the sun.

Composting Books

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide: Banner batches, grow heaps, comforter compost, and other amazing techniques for saving time and money, and producing ... most flavorful, nutritous vegetables ever.

by: Barbara Pleasant, Deborah L. Martin

Amazon Price: $12.97 (as of 07/14/2009)

The Compost Specialist: The Essential Guide to Creating and Using Garden Compost, and Using Potting and Seed Composts (Specialist Series)

by: David Squire

Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/14/2009)

Mike McGrath's Book of Compost

by: Mike McGrath

Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/14/2009)

Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

by: Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/14/2009)

Links

Composting Guide: Source of information for composting needs.
Construction of Insulated Compost Containers: Instruction in the construction of insulated compost containers and the composting of kitchen and yard waste in cold climates.
Stan Slaughter, Eco-Troubadour: "The Composters" educational program to promote reducing yard waste going into landfills.
Florida's On-Line Composting Center: Information about composting in Florida, and learn about compost maturity tests you can do.
Composting Council of Canada: An organization with a charter to advocate and advance composting and compost usage.
Composting at Home: A guide to composting at home.
U.S. Composting Council: Research, public education, compost standards, expansion of compost markets and the enlistment of public support.
Digital Composter: Gardening and composting information for the Southern California gardener Includes a directory and calendar of events.
Master Composter: Build a backyard compost pile, build or buy bins, worm composting, trench composting, and soil incorporation.
Beauty of Compost Heaps: How to make, use, and maintain a compost heap.
How Composting Works: Illustrated tutorial shows what happens when solid waste is composted, and how you can make your own compost.
Rotating Barrel Composter: Instructions on building your own rotating composter.
The Adventures of Herman: Information about earth worms.
The Bird's Nest Bin: Compost method that costs nothing and is as natural as a bird's nest.
Making Organic Compost with the HDRA: A guide to making compost by the HDRA, Europe's largest organic gardening organisation. Dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.
Composting: Basic information on turning biological matter into compost.
Cornell University Composting Resources: Case studies, manuals, and informational links to composting waste on a household or municipal scale.
Garden Compost Microorganisms: Four scanning electron images of bacteria and fungi found in garden compost. Includes resource links.
The Compost Heap: Resources for composting, recycling, and organic gardening.
Composting: Advice on how composting works, how to build a composter, and a recipe for creating it.
Composting Practices: Explains the process and benefits of composting.
Worm Composting: Details the benefits of composting with red wiggler worms.
Gardening Tips for Northeast Texas: Articles detailing how to create a compost pile and what it can be used for.
How To Build a Compost Bin: Details how to construct different types of composting units.
Making and Using Compost: Explains the composting process and its value.
Soils and Composting: Basic information on building compost and worm bins, and soil improvement techniques.
Wriggler Wranch: About vermicomposting, nightcrawlers, red worms, composting, castings, and worm dirt.
White Violet Center for Eco-Justice: Composting provides a vital way for organic farmers to fertilize their soil.
Compost Resource Page: Information concerning various aspects of composting.
Shadow Box Construction: Describes a backyard high temperature composter for kitchen and yard waste.
Home Composting With Worms: How to build or buy a worm compost system, worms to get, waste to put in, and maintenance tips.
The Composting Association (UK): Membership organization offering news, events and information affecting the composting industry.
Composting at Home: Describes the composting process and gives advice on how to compost at home.
Go 4 Green Composting: The active living and environment program. Advises on materials to avoid in compost heaps.
Chicago Department of Energy Composting Tips: Illustrated document describing the basics of home composting, with contact information for Chicago-area workshops.
Ecochem: Composting Process: Covers composting basics: materials to add, temperature, aeration, methods, and applications.
HowToCompost.org: Offering composting information and links to web resources on a variety of composting topics. Includes a forum.
Garden Compost: Details what compost is along with how it can be used and a compost pile maintained.
Composting At Home: Advice on how to compost and how it benefits the soil.
Ketzel Levine's Talking Plants - Compost Soup: Ketzel Levine talks with NPR's Scott Simon about compost tea, its history, how to make it, and points to additional online resources about it. [6:34 streaming audio broadcast]
Brewing Compost Tea: Comprehensive article originally published in Kitchen Gardener Magazine, written by Elaine Ingham.
Compost Tea Fact Sheet: Results of a study of the effectiveness of compost tea on cherry blossom brown rot.
Woods End Research Laboratory, Inc.: Compost analysis kits, biodegradation tests, waste characterization, and some advice for consumers on what to look for in compost products.
The Compost Bin: Learn about Composting: Series of short articles about composting, including the basics of piles and tumblers, worm composting, mushroom compost and compost tea.