Composting at Home
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Composting at home has become a good deal more refined than in the past. Much less labor-intensive, you can now easily and effectively put your paper, kitchen and yard waste to work, reducing what goes into our landfills while protecting our precious environment. Composting at homes enables you to reduce or eliminate completely the use of chemical fertilizers that can pollute ground water, harm wildlife and cause injury to your family, livestock or pets.
With two choices on how to accomplish this, you can use one of the simply designed but completely functional home composters and accessories or choose to put redworms, red wigglers or night crawlers to work to break down the waste. Both methods will ultimately produce an all natural, organic fertilizer you can use on your lawn and gardens with complete confidence in its safety.
Composting takes place naturally, but with our selection of home composters, accessories and worm composters the process is greatly accelerated, enabling you to give back to the earth what you have taken out of it, reaping her remarkable rewards in the process. |
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Bonide Compost Maker
Price $8.58
Bonide® Compost Maker is a Humus builder! All organic, Compost Maker accelerates the decomposition process in compost bins and drums, in leaf and yard debris piles and directly in the garden when applied to layers of grass and leaf clippings. Non-corrosive and non-volatile, Compost Maker supports microbial cultures feeding on moist organic matter, their digestive processes producing stable humus, the broken down organic matter, basically nutrient-rich planting medium, you get when composting yard and garden debris, kitchen waste (except dairy, meats & fats) and paper garbage. Compost Maker can be broadcast dry and then moistened or sprayed with water directly into your bin or pile.
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Compost Thermometer
Price $19.00
Composting occurs best when the temperature of the compost pile is maintained between 110° and 160°F. This handy thermometer with a 19” probe easily measures the temperature throughout your compost pile, indicating the best time to water and turn, resulting in the most efficient use of your time and energy.
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Tumbling Dual-Batch Composter-Terra Cotta
Price $206.99
Our Tumbling Dual-Batch Composter in Terra Cotta is one of the most eye-friendly composters on the market. With its graceful lines and earthy color, you won’t have to hide your composter, but can place it where it is most convenient for you. This tumbling composter spins easily, eliminating the need to manually turn a composter pile, and has a patented dual batch system, enabling you to have a constant supply of fresh, organic compost; a drain allows you to collect compost tea. Its large capacity, sliding lid and rodent-proof design make backyard composting easy, manageable and now…attractive.
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