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Category: Quick,Easy,Garden Tips. | Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:53 am

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Get a 5 gallon or larger bucket with a lid. Cut out the bottom of the bucket with a pair of heavy-duty shears or a utility knife.
Push the bucket into one of your flower beds so the bottom of the bucket is 12 inches below the soil surface.
Add compost, weeds( without seeds), and plant wastes every day, do NOT use meat or processed foods. You can use egg shells and vegetable waste also.
Keep the lid on to avoid attracting flies or other
critters.
When it's nearly full, pull the bucket up, and cover the pile with soil.
It will quickly settle as the compost rots and the earthworms do their work, and, as the compost breaks down, it will provide the bed with nutrients.
Tomatoes and squash crops, both heavy feeders, will benefit greatly when planted close by.

Poison Ivy.
If you need a barrier between you and the poison ivy try this:
Put a plastic newspaper sleeve over your hand and arm like a glove before pulling the ivy.
After you have pulled it out, peel the 'glove' inside out while you are still holding the weed.
Then you can throw the whole thing away safely.
There is no danger, using this method, of spreading plant oils as there is when using garden gloves, for the same task.
If you were saving all your bread bags, now you have a use for them!!
Till next time. Mrs 'G'



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Frank wrote on Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:51 pm:

I love, love, love the composter tip Mrs. G. What do you think of using a number of smaller containers and distributing them across a larger bed, thereby providing nutrients to a wider area?

Keep the tips coming, I really enjoy them.

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