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Finishing bokashi solids in your YOLO

Finishing  bokashi solids in your YOLO

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

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Composting is a year-round activity

Composting is a year-round activity

Composting is a year-round activity because even when our gardens are quiet, we produce organic waste from our homes every day, regardless of the season. How much kitchen waste do you generate each day? I fill half to one icecream

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Going away? Add more brown to your YOLO

Going away? Add more brown to your YOLO

If you are going away, add more dry ‘brown’, carbon-rich materials and tumble. Make use of the leaves littering your lawn. You can easily leave your YOLO for a week or more without worry. When you get back, tumble more

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Protecting seedlings at night in your YOLO

Protecting seedlings at night in your YOLO

My veggie seedlings sleep in my YOLO Compost Tumbler at night to benefit from the warm, moist and humid environment. These broadbean seedlings are 2.5 weeks since planting. Nights are getting much colder as winter sets in. I’ve found that

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3 Top YOLO Compost Tumbler tips

3 Top YOLO Compost Tumbler tips

Compost tumbling is, like hot bins, heaps, stacks and cages, a natural composting process. What makes compost tumbling effective is that the tumbling mixes and aerates the contents – this is why the composting process is faster than the others.

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Shred dry leaves using your lawnmower

Shred dry leaves using your lawnmower

Autumn is here! Love those leaves by doing something useful with them. Rake them, shred them and save ’em to use in your YOLO Compost Tumbler throughout the year as a carbon-rich material. No shredding machine? No problem! Use your

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YOLO compost out performs commercial compost in Chris’ veggie garden

YOLO compost out performs commercial compost in Chris’ veggie garden

Chris Wilcock recently moved and he has been hard at work establishing a new vegetable garden. When Lisa bumped into him this past weekend, he remarked on how much better the bed with YOLO compost is doing than the bed into

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Key composting issues and solutions

Jeremy is having mixed success with his composting. His wife doesn’t always chop up the stuff that she drops into their YOLO Compost Tumbler – like tossing in a whole brinjal that went off. His children added some really big,

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Use those autumn leaves

The next time you wonder just what to do with the drifts of autumn leaves in your garden and along the pavements of your neighbourhood, watch this humorous and informative 17-minute TED talk by Mike McGrath. The title “Everything You

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Improve your compost

Maintaining a healthy compost comes down to five basics. These include the ingredients that you put into your compost, the size of the material, moisture, temperature and air.

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