We’ve talked many times in the past about composting with worms, the commercial options and the DIY options, previous articles can be found here. Frankly, worms are great but not suited to everyone and every situation, so for those of you wishing to enter the wonderful world of composting there is always bokashi.
A fantastic example of container gardening, this time from the Chelsea Flower Show, created as part of the Eden Project, you can imagine it working brilliant in a warehouse apartment conversion or outside a large block of flats.
Apologies for that headline there, it was cheesy and mildly offensive (to some), but I wanted to grab your attention and tell you about a bunch of great and really interesting links I came across yesterday.
TODAY’S teenager is wired up. TVs, DVDs, Xboxes and PlayStations, Wiis and mobile phones, iPods and Kindles, laptops, printers, cameras and hair straighteners are all considered as essential as oxygen. And there’s the typical teenage behaviour: opening the fridge door every 10 minutes, habitually leaving lights on, countless hours of TV. Which raises the question: just how much does living with a teenager cost? Karen and Steve Hulse have three teenagers: university student Andrew, 19; VCE student Danielle, 17; and Emily, 13. Each quarter they get a $1300 electricity bill – $5200 a year.
We came across several great looking products for renters at the recent Go Green Expo, more to follow, but in the meantime one of the companies exhibiting offered to extend their show special prices to our readers until the end of May… The Yum eYard.
I would suspect a lot of these compartments would be far too shallow for most container plants but small rocks could be interspersed with the deeper planting for good effect. It’s certainly a great innovative way of recycling an old ‘tackle’ box instead of going out and buying loads of pots and it gets plus points for portability.
As featured on Craft with an easy to follow tutorial.
Here at Green Renters we spend a lot of time thinking about ways to live sustainably in a rental property. Like everyone, sometimes we find it hard to find time to do everything around the home that we’d like to. But I see it as an ong0ing process rather than a big list of ‘must do now’ items. Finding time to garden can be hard, and finding time to shop ethically even harder.
