Posts Tagged ‘ Garden Composting ’

Update: Where you can get worms for composting in the Buffalo area

September 6, 2011
composting with worms in Buffalo Ny

A lot of you have asked where you can get red worms for composting. In an April article, we told you that Buffalo Reuse was planning to sell worms for composting. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like they’ll have a stock available anytime soon, so your best bet is to go to a bait shop....
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Turn garbage into compost for your garden with red wriggler worms

April 26, 2011
composting with worms in Buffalo Ny

I saw some amazingly beautiful compost a couple weeks ago in an Earth Day demonstration at Buffalo ReUse. The compost was dark brown and crumbly and pure, with almost no soil mixed in. The secret to this compost is red wriggler worms. They eat garbage and turn it into compost. “They eat their weight...
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Start composting now to prepare for spring gardening in Buffalo area

February 15, 2011
potato image for composting in Buffalo

If you don’t have a compost bin going yet, now is the time to start. The temperatures should be in the 50s later this week, and you may get a touch of spring fever. Starting a compost bin will give you a garden-related chore during this brief warm spell. Your goal for the next...
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Here’s why great soil is so important to your Buffalo area garden

February 1, 2011
Sharon Webber talks with Gary Barnes of Buffalo

Sharon M. Webber, CNLP was once called to a home with a problem. It had a fairly new landscape, installed just two years before, but the plants weren’t thriving. In fact, normally tough and sturdy varieties of plant, such as forsythia, spirea, day lilies and even black-eyed Susans, were declining, big time. When you...
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Are you throwing away what your garden needs?

November 16, 2010
compost for garden in Buffalo NY

If you’re not using your leaves for compost, you’re throwing away a perfectly good supply of nutrients for your soil. When you compost, you allow plant materials to decompose, which produces a dark material that contains nutrients that may not be contained in synthetic fertilizers. Granted, some municipalities, such as Amherst, pick up the...
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