November is the time to compost, plant trees and shrubs, and prepare your garden for winter. Enjoy your past labors and plan ...

You will reap the fruits of your labor when you add your compost to your spring garden. Have more material than you can ...

Bring fall indoors by creating seasonally scented candles. While you can't add leaves directly to wax, you can capture their ...

• Make a “base plan.” Measure your property with a tape measure or the measuring app on your smart phone. Plot it on grid ...

Pansies thrive in the cooler temperatures of fall and during mild winters when your summer annuals fade or succumb to frost.

Plus, find out which pumpkins you should not compost and get a few other eco-friendly ideas for putting old pumpkins to good use in the garden and beyond. Pumpkins and other organic items don’t ...

Tough prunings and garden waste will rot down quicker in the compost heap if you shred it first. The best garden shredder can churn through garden waste quietly and quickly without getting blocked up.

The New Canaan Department of Public Works will begin picking up leaves left in windrows — not bagged — beginning Nov. 4 for ...

Just make sure you remove the seeds or your compost could turn into a pumpkin ... into little pieces before spreading it into your garden. Unlike landfills that trap waste, bacteria in your ...

The gardening year is now starting to wind down, and plants are beginning to reward us with the jewel-like colours of their ...

Research suggests that used coffee grounds may help boost composting by absorbing heavy metals that may contaminate your garden soil. A 2016 study compared four batches of compost containing 0% ...

You can compost them, smash them or feed them to farm animals, so long as you haven’t doused your pumpkins in bleach or paint. If you have a yard or a garden plot, you can compost your pumpkin ...