Indoor Composting Systems

Turn kitchen scraps into fertilizer with one of these kits.

Seed Saving for Beginners

Adapt plants to your own private patch of dirt.

beans from my garden! I thought red wiggler worms were for indoor composting. I’m in the Northeast, and those critters would freeze if they were used outdoors.

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I have a compost bucket under the sink, and in the summer it NEEDS to go outside on a regular basis. I don’t think indoor composting can really work very well, even if very well covered.

God bless white vinegar, is there nothing it can’t do? Saw on a home show one time that if you put small dishes out at a party where people are smoking indoors, it can help control the odor...my husband uses it to...

The Green City Market is still going, although it’s now moving indoors for the winter. chicagogreencitymarket.org

in containers get a mix of garden soil, lime, wood ashes, composted manure. BTW my zucchini plants started indoors looked horrible (lost some melon plants) because of all the cold and rain. I finally decided to treat them with...

. Another point – Last year’s garden was in lasagna beds built of layers of fresh grass, old leaves with a bottom layer of wet newspapers on old sod in 2007. In spring, 2008, we topped the beds with composted horse...

to be a fairly odorless, easy way to compost inside your house. It should give you great soil to grow some herbs indoors too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokashi_composting

Its pretty hard to start seeds indoors unless you have a light set up. other considerations are warmth and maintenance of humidity/moisture for germination and growth. Covering the seeded flats or pots is pretty much essential...

Don’t try resprouting your existing tomatoes if they were damaged by late blight. You want to get those out of your garden completely. Every source I’ve looked at says to put them in plastic bags and trash them....

I want to start growing herbs at home, for the first time. It’d have to be indoors. My Brooklyn apartment has a fire escape but there are plenty of squirrels and mice — maybe even rats — that might like to...

I’m doing mostly root vegetables — a couple of heirloom varieties of carrots and beets, parsnips, onions. Also cauliflower and a winter squash (mystery seedling from my sister’s compost bin) that’s already...

indoors or transported to a garden. I can’t imagine this. How would you get those big knobby roots. Can the other parts of the ginger plant be used in cooking? One grow your own ginger link....