Composting
VIVOSUN Compost Tumbler Review: Two Years of Turning and Harvesting
Two years with the VIVOSUN 43-gallon dual-chamber tumbler, and what it actually takes to get finished compost out of it.
Practical, hands-on notes for organic home gardeners.
Two years with the VIVOSUN 43-gallon dual-chamber tumbler, and what it actually takes to get finished compost out of it.
A side-by-side look at the VIVOSUN 43-gallon tumbling composter and a traditional stationary bin, based on two years of backyard use.
After two years of running the VIVOSUN dual-chamber tumbling composter next to the old open pile, here is what I would tell a neighbor who is still turning with a fork.
Practical, hands-on notes for organic home gardeners.
Two years with a VIVOSUN dual chamber tumbler taught me how to turn kitchen scraps and yard waste into finished compost in weeks, not months. Here is the whole method, step by step.
Two years of daily use, one honest opinion. What the VIVOSUN 43-gallon tumbling composter does well, where it struggles, and who should buy it anyway.
Three growing seasons in rocky red clay, three Land Guard beds, and the honest long-term verdict from an organic home gardener.
Galvanized steel or wood for your organic garden? After three seasons with both, here is what I would choose and why.
Ten practical reasons a galvanized raised bed earns its place in an organic garden, from a gardener who has tested them for three seasons.
How a raised bed got me above the clay and gave me my first real tomato harvest.
Hazel Whitford's plain-spoken, hands-on method for building an organic vegetable garden in raised beds, from siting to first harvest.
Three seasons of honest notes on the Land Guard galvanized raised bed: assembly, soil, wind, rust, and the things the listing photos leave out.
Four years into a daily relationship with the Nisaku NJP650, here is what holds up, what does not, and why I reach for it before anything else in the shed.
I carried both through a full season in my raised beds. Here is how they actually compare for weeding, dividing, and digging.
Practical, hands-on notes on the Japanese weeding knife that replaced my trowel, my weeder, and half my excuses.
Four years in, the Nisaku hori hori is the one tool Hazel Whitford still picks up first. A plain-spoken story about weeding, dividing perennials, and a blade with inch markings.
Hazel Whitford's practical, hands-on notes on using a Nisaku hori hori for two of the garden's most common chores.
Four years with the Nisaku hori hori in rocky Ozarks clay, told straight: what it does well, what it doesn't, and who should buy something else.
Three seasons of using Wiggle Worm pure worm castings in seed starting mix, transplant holes, and top dressing. What worked, what didn't, and who should buy it.
Two bags of worm castings, side by side: what I found after three seasons of using Wiggle Worm and a season of trying Brut.
What three seasons of Wiggle Worm castings have done for my raised beds, in plain terms.
Hazel Whitford shares three seasons of hands-on notes on using Wiggle Worm pure worm castings in seed starting mix, transplant holes, and top dressing.
Worm castings are the gentlest way to feed seedlings and potted plants. Here is the five-step method I use every spring, from mixing castings into seed starting mix to top dressing established pots.
Three seasons of using Wiggle Worm pure worm castings in seed trays, transplant holes, and as a top dressing. What worked, what didn't, and what I'd tell a friend.
Two seasons of spraying, diluting, failing and fixing with plantonix Neem Bliss on an Arkansas backyard garden.
Two seasons with a pure neem concentrate, an honest look at the ready-to-use spray, and which one belongs in your shed.
Why a jug of plantonix neem oil earns a permanent spot in my garden shed.
Practical, hands-on notes for organic home gardeners.
A five-step evening routine for aphids and powdery mildew, learned the hard way in an Arkansas vegetable garden.
Two seasons of spraying aphids and powdery mildew with Neem Bliss, and the honest list of what it fixed, what it only slowed, and what it never touched.
Two years with the VIVOSUN 43-gallon dual-chamber tumbler, and what it actually takes to get finished compost out of it.
Two years of daily use, one honest opinion. What the VIVOSUN 43-gallon tumbling composter does well, where it struggles, and who should buy it anyway.
Three growing seasons in rocky red clay, three Land Guard beds, and the honest long-term verdict from an organic home gardener.
Three seasons of honest notes on the Land Guard galvanized raised bed: assembly, soil, wind, rust, and the things the listing photos leave out.
Four years into a daily relationship with the Nisaku NJP650, here is what holds up, what does not, and why I reach for it before anything else in the shed.
Four years with the Nisaku hori hori in rocky Ozarks clay, told straight: what it does well, what it doesn't, and who should buy something else.
Three seasons of using Wiggle Worm pure worm castings in seed starting mix, transplant holes, and top dressing. What worked, what didn't, and who should buy it.
Three seasons of using Wiggle Worm pure worm castings in seed trays, transplant holes, and as a top dressing. What worked, what didn't, and what I'd tell a friend.
Two seasons of spraying, diluting, failing and fixing with plantonix Neem Bliss on an Arkansas backyard garden.
Two seasons of spraying aphids and powdery mildew with Neem Bliss, and the honest list of what it fixed, what it only slowed, and what it never touched.