Gardening4Life

03/06/2026

Here is a list of healthy greens to use in making GOOD compost and also use to feed your soils - Nitrogen.
SAVE in BUCKETS or a sealed pot or jar in your kitchen.

WASTED ORGANIC VEGETABLE MATTER
HELP the WORLD - TO improve our SOILS & Health
Used to Feed our Soils that Feed us!

GOOD CLEAN VEGETABLES - no oil, or salt
• Banana Skins or Old Bananas
• Potato Peels
• Carrots & Shavings
• Lettuce leaves
• Cabbage Leaves
• Corn (not the cobs)
• Coffee Grounds
• Salad mix (without dressings)
• Fruit (without the seeds)
• Apples core (seeds OK)
• Tomato Skins

• NO - COOKED foods
• NO - Whole Tomatoes (too many seeds)

02/12/2026

Cool idea. Build a garden in your kitchen. No walking to eat very fresh, healthy-food.

10/03/2024

Breakthrough. A new "No-Dig" garden bed was started in April 2024. Cardboard was placed on top of a w**d patch, then 2 inches of GOOD compost was placed on top of the cardboard.
The results in August of 2024 were absolutely amazing! Conclusion: Compost made for free WORKS WONDERS! See the before and after photos:

04/22/2024

Today April 22nd 2024 is Earth Day. Here is how we're celebrating: All this healthy food was picked today from our downstairs garden and our outside garden.

03/05/2024

We are eating out of our basement garden today. Lettuce and Spinach and Cucumbers. So fresh, crunchy and delicious!

02/25/2024

We did it. Indoor cucumber 🥒 in February in Montana in 56 days. Thanks to the Good Lord.

02/21/2024

Here is 12 days of growth on our indoors cucumbers. It's becoming food jungle. Tomatoes are starting to produce. We eat yummy organic lettuce and spinach each day. February in Montana, looks like we can grow and eat healthy food year around.

02/09/2024

Pure health, fresh-cut from our basement February 9th, 2024. In cool Montana USA.

01/02/2024

For 2024 we have started a contest. Who can get the first amaryllis plant to bloom? There are 15 bulbs in the contest. Boo, mine is the runt of the bunch. Stay tuned to come ... More Photos. Any hints appreciated.

12/11/2023

https://youtu.be/SDHNkrA5BdA?si=qrdlhrTbQo9HEPXo

Wayne Burleson, the compost evangelist, takes the TEDx stage to share his journey of turning waste into wealth through soil transformation. This talk explore...

11/28/2023

Look who is growing our GOOD compost? These guys on November 28th, 2023, are active at 32 Degrees Fahrenheit. We feed them our fresh kitchen waste. They love the banana peels. When they number 100's in the compost pile, we call them Ninja Earthworms. Because they ROCK.

11/26/2023

Test of homemade compost compared to mix potting soil (compost with chopped-up leaves added).

Left photo; homemade compost.
Right photo; mixed potting soil and compost.
Obviously the homemade compost is out-growing the mixed potting soil. Test photos, lettuce planted November 8th, germinated Nov. 11th. After photo taken Nov 26th. 18 day of growth. Again homemade compost wins.