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composting on TV

I was tuned into the HGTV station Sunday, and tho I can't recall the exact
program, one lady had a great bunch of recycling/composting, conserving
ideas.  Programs like this make me wish I'd remember to keep a blank
cassette in the VCR!
      She said all her tomato plants are '2 dimensional', she snips off any
growth that grows outward and trellisses the tops upward onto a stout arbor
(old pallets reassembled into functional squares) .  Any plant tip that she
cuts off, she just shreds and replaces around the plant it came off of. She
plants future crops directly into the rotting/rotted material along with a
little straw.  She utilizes mulches extensively, composting directly in the
pathways and beds of her gardens.  (Just rakes a little spent straw back,
expose the soil and put whatever garbage or spent plant she has directly
there and replace the straw covering. ) She used gallon jugs filled with
water around her tender spring vegetables to draw heat and keep the plants
warm during the earliest frosty nights. Everything had a built-up look to
it, like she'd been building her compost garden a long time. Her husband is
an artist, and the dust from all his sculpture was  put back into the soil
to amend it also.
       A really cute 'aside':  He commented that in her work, she used to
travel a great deal.  While she was gone, he'd just push the pasture fence
back 15 ft or so, and she'd come home and frantically work it till it was
incorporated into her garden.  (He'd discovered that, to keep her home, he
must keep moving the fence lines back!)
martha
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