This week, Martha Stewart shared her DIY composting tips, urging gardeners to reduce trash pickups and landfill usage in favor of recycling food waste. 'Composting is a secret weapon for gardeners – ...

Composting is easy, whether you live in a small town or big city. Whether you live in a house in the suburbs or an apartment in the city, you can compost, and it doesn’t have to be a time-consuming ...

SAN ANTONIO – The soil you use in your garden is important because it adds nutrients to your plants. You can save money and help out the environment at the same time by making your own compost soil.

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If you haven’t started your composting journey, consider this your sign to begin. Turning your kitchen scraps and backyard ...

Gardeners often assume outdoor compost piles stop working in cold weather, but beneficial microbes can continue to break down compost all winter. The problem is that composting takes much longer in ...

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 ...

The only place it’s hard to compost is an apartment. So declares Jackie Trimble of Washington State University Master Gardeners. She highly recommends the do-it-yourself approach of getting food ...

No special activators, other than the element of time, are needed to turn "garbage" into rich, brown compost in New Paltz, N.Y. (Lee Reich/AP) Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog ...

Turning compost piles regularly produces faster results and kills weed seeds. Turning compost piles provides more air to beneficial microbes, helping to speed up the composting process and creating ...

I am considering starting a compost pile this year and looking for some advice; some of the articles I’ve read suggest steps more complicated than I am willing to implement. My time is limited, so I ...

As the growing season draws to a close and your garden beds are filled with dead plants, consider adding them to your compost ...