All the Dirt on Gardening

Go Green Oklahoma reports that paper manufacturing is one of the most energy and resource intensive processes in our economy. Their website urges us to reduce our paper consumption. The site has other go-green suggestions at their Make Every Day Earth Day link. 1. Plug printers and chargers into power strips and turn off the strips when not in use. 2. Waste less water. It is cycled through a chemical bath before it comes out your faucet. 3. Read product contents and choose the ones with less packaging and fewer chemicals. 4. Slow down on the highway. Avoid long drive-through lines where your car engine runs while you wait. 5. Choose locally grown food and compost what you don’t use. 6. Take re-usable bags to the store instead of getting oil-produced new ones on every trip. Keep them in your car. 7. Reduce paper use and recycle the rest. 8. Compost and worm compost. Each of us wastes 1.3 pounds of food scraps daily. Yard trimmings and food waste combined make up 25 to 30 percent of our ...

At 60-degrees and sunny this could be called a perfect day for being in the yard. I must admit that digging out weeds is getting old though and I can't wait for something that seems more productive, like seeing seeds sprout. Where do the creatures go in winter? W e rescue turtles from the neighborhood dogs' mouths and babies are born here. But where are they now? I crawled around flower beds to seek and destroy weeds, move leaves and flower stalks but I found no wildlife anywhere. COMPOST WORMS For Earth Day this year I'm going to give away composting worm kits, so gardeners and kids can see how food scraps can become good earth for growing plants. So, I've been reading worm blogs on the Internet and searching for compost worm articles. Did you know that 25% of landfill is food scraps that could be composted to make rich garden soil instead? I found worm cartoons on You Tube. Here are some interesting sites about composting with red worms: Red Worm Composting Earth W...