Compost is a fantastic way to give your plants a nutritional boost. And although maintaining a batch is second nature to some gardeners during the growing season, most take a break in winter. But ...

My office is just down the road from the Washington State University composting facility. It processes more than 10,000 pounds of organic waste every month. That’s a lot of compost! I talked about ...

While there are numerous benefits of composting at home, it's also important that you have a safe routine to help prevent possible drawbacks. These include drawing wasps to your compost pile. It turns ...

How To Make Compost At Home: Making organic fertilizer at home from kitchen waste is very easy. Give your plants natural nutrition and make your kitchen garden lush by making compost from vegetable ...

Is your compost a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste? You might be doing everything wrong. Fear not ...

When I saw an advertisement about Martha Stewart being a dirt nerd, I recalled a column I did a number of years ago. I had met someone who made a business out of making compost. Then I looked at my ...

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. making compost in a compost bin If you like to keep things as organic as possible in the garden, making your own fertilizer is an ...