Use a shovel or pitchfork to turn your compost? It's a laborious but necessary process that you could do more easily and ...

No room for a traditional compost pile or bin? According to expert gardener Simon Akeroyd, you don't need one. All it takes ...

Your compost pile will be a mix of “browns” and “greens”. Together, with water and air, these materials will decompose and transform into a soil amendment. ISTOCK PHOTO Your compost pile will be a mix ...

If you have been keeping a compost pile, you have been maintaining an active ecosystem that is based on the breakdown of the organic materials that you are composting. With optimal conditions, your ...

Compost and fertilizer are both soil additions, but they serve different purposes. For a thriving garden with healthy plants ...

There’s nothing mysterious about making compost. It’s just a mixture of stuff we usually toss — banana peels, coffee grounds, eggshells, shredded newspaper, fallen leaves, grass clippings ... and that ...

We have a saying at our house: "The compost pile is just another mouth to feed." After all, our garden thrives on compost, and thus we thrive on it, too. That pile is an energy center, like a furnace, ...

I’ve opened some pretty questionable compost bins over the years. There’s a particular smell that tells you immediately ...

We have been long-time composters in other areas of the country. We now live in Benicia and have a question we haven’t seen addressed elsewhere. We have what we think are no-seeum bites that begin ...