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Saving the World One Backyard Garden at a Time! |
Here are a few video links about composting that I made.
Nothing beats compost for feeding your plants. Take all your kitchen scraps (vegetable and fruit peels, egg shells, no meat though), grass clippings, dried leaves etc and mix them into a pile in the corner of your yard.
Keep adding new material on top and turn the compost with a shovel once or twice a week.
Will add more to this post later……
Rain Barrel from NYC
Here is our free rain barrel from NYC. They had a rain barrel give away program last Spring (2009) and we have been using it ever since.
We use the water to feed our chickens and to water our potted plants. We are going to add another rain barrel to the garage this summer.
Here is a video to show you how the rain barrel works. Click Here To See The Rain Barrel
In order to save our lawn and garden I had to build a new chicken pen to attach to the chicken coop I built last year. We let our hens run free all Fall and Winter and they practically destroyed the backyard. Once the plants and grass are grown back in this summer we will let them out again. I looked at alot of chicken pens online and decided this was the best design for our hens. We added one a feature to it that I am sure no other chicken pen has. We added a compost screener to the top.
I will create a video shortly to show you how this works but for now I will just explain it. The top of the chicken pen is half inch hardclothe so we built a separate frame around that hardclothe that creates the top of the pen and we can remove to shift our compost.
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