Basic No Work Gardening

If plant choice is our first consideration in planning the no-work garden, then where do we go from there? We’re picking the no-work plants that reduce deadheading, have high survival rates, don’t require a ton of pruning and that’s all well and good but how do we get them to really perform well without a [...]

Spreading Compost Tea

Here’s a video on spreading compost tea. I outline the need for filters and show you the 4 main systems a home gardener has for spreading compost tea around in the garden.

How to Make Compost Tea

Here’s a video on how to make compost tea – not something you’d want to invite the Queen to …
But you could invite her to the garden afterwards.
Note that this video is part of a series of videos I’m producing for my seminar series and it’s only the first one in the series (more [...]

Contaminated Composted Manure

Thanks to GardenRant for the lead on contaminated manure in the U.K. This story actually got me thinking because my daughter – raising lettuce and tomatoes in containers in Toronto – claimed this past weekend that she and her partner got sick when they ate their lettuce. Now this was containers with potting [...]

Compost Tumbler Review Update

This isn’t going well.
A few weeks ago, I posted a video of me putting the simple compost tumbler together. It was an adventure and you got to see the process (shortened drastically) along with some tips to make your process easier.
I have to report that there are some problems with this [...]

Compost Tumbler Review

One of the trials we have going this summer is this compost tumbler (we got ours from for review purposes from http://www.organic-compost-tumbler.com/)
Start to finish in the construction process, about 45 minutes. I deliberately didn’t study the instructions and still managed to get it all together. Mind you, I had to refer to the [...]