Composting is beneficial to gardeners and the environment, but to make the most of it, you need to discover which method best ...

Layer these materials on the bottom of your raised beds to reduce weeds and other garden problems. Raised gardens are typically filled with a rich, raised bed soil mix made of sand, compost, and ...

Leaves are beginning to fall from deciduous trees, and this will increase over the next few weeks. The question is, “What do we do with all of those leaves?” I’ve been seeing information online ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wouldn’t you know that the lovely Colorado fall season was interrupted with a blast of chill and measurable snow — truly a preview of winter to come. This is ...

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 ...

Composting is a great option for minimizing waste and putting it to good use by turning food scraps and other organic matter into free fertilizer for your garden. (Nearly half of all garbage collected ...

You can easily turn kitchen scraps and garden waste into nutrient-rich soil for your garden. While many happily add in items ...

New York City’s mandatory composting program is now up and running in all five boroughs. That means that city residents must separate their organic refuse from their household trash and place it at ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — Reading, writing, arithmetic and gardening? Yep, you heard that right. Students at one Mount Pleasant elementary school have the chance to get out in the garden to work ...

It doesn’t take a lot of time or investment to create worm bins filled with red wigglers that will break down food scraps into rich compost for the garden. There’s a yardstick among gardeners that ...