This post in The New York Times on composting is a gem. I love these comments from ‘The New Gardener’s Handbook’ author, Daryl Beyers, who is interviewed about composting. 1. “Whether you’re adding it to help improve fertility or water-holding
Bokashi is a popular method used to breakdown cooked food waste. It requires the addition of a bokashi bran – layering waste and then bran and then waste and then bran inside your container. The organic material is fermented by
An email from a YOLOer focused my attention on FOOD WASTE when he wrote, “It seems that we generate quite a lot of food waste. We must be wasteful (there are four of us) because we filled up the two
The new Johannesburg International Flower Show (30 Oct – 3 Nov 2019 at Waterfall City) has been on my radar for a few weeks after a YOLO Compost Tumbler customer, whose company is involved with the event, contacted me saying that YOLO would be
Do you also have a tub in your kitchen to put your veggie cuttings and peels into as you prepare food? We also throw in coffee ground, which I find can make the bottom of the tub quite nasty over
We warmly welcome our new YOLO CEMENT MIXER to our YOLO family. Perfectly mix concrete, mortar and plaster (and anything else too!) without breaking your back or creating a mess. It is ideal for home DIY projects, landscapers and handyman
It is early August and up on the highveld the weather is weirdly warm – but we are sure to have another one or two cold snaps before spring really sets in. It is almost time for our lawns to
As you start to plan how you would like your veggie and flower beds to be this coming season, consider Jane’s approach of no-dig gardening and her tips on how to do this. “The main cause of compacted soil is
If you’re going no dig, Jane’s Delicious Garden recommends adding your compost to the surface of your beds. “To maintain fertile, healthy soil we need to continually replace the nutrients we remove when we harvest our vegetables and herbs. Using the no
Water-wise plant recommendations from Garden & Home. I’m not big on watering – it seems a waste to put drinking water on a garden – so I rely mostly on my grey water running into the garden and on rain.