Shake Your Pixels

Made from 100% cow manure, these pots provide a nutrient boost as well as being an easily bio-degradeble material to make a post from.

CowPots are manure-fiber based seed starter pots, which allow for unrestricted root growth creating stronger, healthier plants. These earth-friendly “pots you plant” are an exciting high-performing alternative to plastic and peat pots.

http://www.cowpots.com/

I recently found out about Archaea.

The Archaea (/ɑrˈkiːə/ ( listen) ar-kee-ə) are a group of single-celled microorganisms. A single individual or species from this domain is called an archaeon(sometimes spelled “archeon”). They have no cell nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles within their cells.

Archaea are now recognized as a major part of Earth’s life and may play roles in both the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle.

Archaea is being packaged and marketed by Jobe’s (easy gardening) fertilizers as BioZome, but has industrial uses as well as a soil amendment.

If you cut your hair at home, save your trimmings and work them into the garden for a boost to nitrogen.

Additionally, human hair is a deterrent to deer and acts as a mulch as well.

Tobacco has been used by gardeners for centuries as a pesticide.  It appears as though nicotine kills bugs.  A tobacco based “bio-oil”, created with high temperatures in a vacuum has promise to become useful for organic farming. The bio-oil was also useful when the nicotine was removed.

Read the full article here :    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027124734.htm