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Composting puts your yard and kitchen waste to work creating nutrient-rich soil for your garden. It’s a true win-win,...
Compost: It's what eventually becomes of all decomposing organic material. Essentially, it's dirt—but it's not just a...
A compost bin is a great way to keep waste material out of landfills while at the same time creating wonderfully nutr...
Anyone with a garden knows that fertilizer and enriched soil can be expensive. But did you know there is a source of ...
Composting’s a great idea: it helps your garden thrive and keeps valuable organic waste out of landfills. But once yo...
Autumn leaves are a gift to your garden that literally just falls out of the trees. Instead of getting rid of them al...
All those piles of raked leaves and mown grass don’t do much good in your local landfill. If you garden, you can cut ...
The best gardeners know that compost is better than fertilizer, when it comes to providing a nutrient-rich growing en...
I get alot of questions from folks who want to improve their garden soil with compost, but aren’t sure which kind of ...
No fertilizer can do your garden as much good as compost can. It’s impossible to overfertilize with it. Even in colde...
Successful Composting: Balance Is Key Successful composting requires four things: carbon, nitrogen, water and oxygen....
Choose the Right Kind of Mulch There are lots of different kinds of mulch to choose from, depending on what’s in your...
Laying mulch before the winter gives your soil a head start for the next growing season. It also protects delicate pl...