Brown and green plant material provide your compost bin with much-needed nutrients. However, certain plants can contaminate ...

Compost can provide your yard’s gardens and flower, tree and vegetable beds with healthy nutrients that help your plants grow. It’s also great for helping strengthen your soil in floods and droughts, ...

Learn how to make compost and keep composting in winter, how often to turn compost, and get the ratio for green and brown ...

Composting is the process of turning organic waste, such as kitchen scraps and yard debris, into nutrient-rich fertilizer. This transformation is facilitated by microorganisms, including bacteria and ...

Composting is the natural process of recycling organic materials into nutrient-rich fertilizer. It’s a great way to put your kitchen scraps and yard waste to good use, supercharge your soil and plants ...

The best way to deal with compost in the winter is to maintain a worm bin. The worms do the composting for you as they digest ...

Pity the beginning gardener who dares to read about composting. (Please dare to read on, in this case, even if you are a beginner.) What novice would not be intimidated by the too often very ...

California's new law lets ranchers compost livestock on-farm, offering a cost-effective alternative to expensive rendering ...

Composting is an excellent way to eliminate spent leaves and help the environment. Composting also conserves moisture and ...

If you haven’t touched your compost bin or pile all winter, don’t worry, you are not alone. It could be filled with kitchen scraps to the top or left untouched since the fall. Getting a compost pile ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I cogitate on the methods and outcome of home composting, I often think of the title of the classic compost book, “Let it Rot” by Stu Campbell. The book ...

You remember that electric little thrill you get when you stumble onto a gardening secret so simple, so clever, so ridiculously effective that you wonder why it isn’t printed on seed packets in bold ...