Compost tea is nothing more than a large “tea bag” filled with finished compost steeped in water. This colorful compost is ready to be tucked into a bag (a pillowcase will work) to soak in water.

Compost works well as a soil amendment, but you can also use compost as a liquid fertilizer. When compost and water are steeped together, the resulting liquid is known as compost tea, an easy to apply ...

In a column last year, I offered the opinion that there needs to be more science and less hype about compost tea as a suppressor of disease. I also speculated that academic research on the material ...

It's that time of year again to see how some of gardening's new products fared under real-life testing in the Over the Garden Fence Horticultural Trial Laboratory (also known as My Back Yard). The ...

In a 1960s-era edition of Rodale’s “Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening,” the lengthy entry for compost reads like an ode to organic soil amendments: “Here in a dark and mouldy pile the wheel of life is ...