Attractive roses can enhance the beauty of your garden, but it’s difficult to grow. If you want to have good blooms of roses, add the right compost to this type of flower. This solution can provide ...

According to turf experts, topdressing your lawn with a thin layer of compost can improve your soil’s moisture-holding capacity, feed soil microbes, and add nutrients. However, they forget to tell you ...

Hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in partnership with Rust Belt Riders, over 160 composters, haulers, farmers, regulators, researchers, public servants, industry leaders, and allies from ...

Adding compost to light, sandy soil helps it hold moisture and nutrients. Adding it to heavy soil improves drainage. Contain your compost in some type of structure 3 to 5 feet wide. Put your compost ...

Tip: after growing beans in the composting trench, plant cruciferous vegetables for a bumper crop. The high nitrogen levels ...

Composting is good for lawns (as well as for gardens): While compost has been a mainstay for enriching garden soil, homeowners are learning that compost can be incredibly useful for their lawns when ...

MILFORD — Residents now have an option to compost organic waste — a move city officials hope will help reduce municipal trash disposal costs. The city implemented the composting option last month.

“Composting is the human version of re-creating what Mother Nature does out in the wild”: mixing together organic materials to facilitate healthy decomposition, says Rebecca Louie, founder of ...

Beautiful as they are, colorful autumn leaves can be a real clean up process. Instead of bagging them up or letting them blow away, you can turn them into a valuable resource for your garden.

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension announce an online class, Composting for the Winter, which will be held from 11 a.m. to noon Nov. 25 on Zoom. Looking to keep your compost thriving all ...

Make a wildlife-friendly compost for woodlice, worms, toads, and grass snakes. Compost heaps are a great way to turn waste material from your garden and kitchen into lovely wholesome compost to put ...