You want to try to return nutrients to the soil, resulting in a nice balance of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Compost accomplishes that. Second, you lose volume of soil in your beds for a ...

What is Composting, Why Composting Matters, The Basics of Starting a Compost Pile, What Not to Compost, and The Benefits of ...

What does 1 million pounds of locally diverted waste look like? For Alissa LaChance, it looks just like the view from her ...

If you have a big garden or soil to improve before installing a lawn, cover crops are an alternative to hauling lots of ...

If you’re planning a new garden, you should start with good soil. After all, soil is the medium of life for plants, providing a place for roots to spread out and take up water and nutrients.

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Alan Titchmarsh delves into the history of compost, and has finally found something that can replace the brilliant but environmentally unsustainable peat-based formulae. Had you been reading about ...

The two go hand in hand, he says. No-dig is an alternative to working your soil. Instead, you add a layer of home-made compost mulch annually, then leave the microbes to get to work. As you build ...

Good compost is a mixture of multiple materials and should have a healthy ratio of greens and browns. Kitchen scraps, yard waste, manure, and wood chips are used to create compost. Browns and ...

One way to do your part is composting, but there are some entry barriers: space, equipment, and perhaps most notably, the smell and pests that often go along with composting. So as we wrap up our ...

There is so much more to know about composting. I am out of space here and going a little out of “my lane” as an arborist. Suffice it to say: Trees extract valuable minerals from soil and ...