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Green Manure – Cover Crops
Green manures are also known in organic gardening circles as ‘cover crops’, and are grown specifically to benefit soils and not for display or consumption purposes. Green manures can replace and replenish nutrients that have been leeched out of soils and can improve soil structure. Cover crops, also help to stabilize nitrogen in the soil [...]
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Fort Greene Compost Project
There are people in Brooklyn composting. There are people in Fort Greene, Brooklyn composting. There are people at the Fort Greene Farmer’s Market in Fort Greene, Brooklyn composting. Every Saturday. Since October 2005, a group of neighbors and CENYC Greenmarket goers have been running a non-profit compost drop-off system that has utilized local community gardens [...]
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The Importance of Greens and Browns in Composting
When you’re creating compost, having a good mixture of both green and brown materials will help your compost materials decompose faster, the finished compost will be better for your plants, and you’ll be able to use your compost sooner too. Greens and Browns in composting are just nicknames for the types of organic materials you [...]
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How to Make Your Garden Green
Spending time in the garden is a great way to get back to nature. But it is all to easy to rely on modern and environmentally damaging methods of gardening and can be quite difficult to ensure we are gardening in an eco-friendly way. Achieving great results in the garden needn’t mean you have to [...]