As a first-time composter, I'm on the hunt for the best methods to make my efforts successful. That's why I've been deciding between the layering vs turning compost techniques. Both layering and ...

A compost chimney is a simple addition to any pile that can speed up the composting process and eliminate slow or smelly ...

Gardeners often assume outdoor compost piles stop working in cold weather, but beneficial microbes can continue to break down compost all winter. The problem is that composting takes much longer in ...

You may not have even known that you can keep composting in the winter. You can, but doing so requires modifications if you are hot composting, meaning using a balanced mix of carbon-rich and nitrogen ...

If you pile up organic material in a remote corner of your garden, it will eventually turn into compost without you needing to do a thing. But if you want to create high-quality compost fast and make ...

Composting is a win-win ...

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 ...

Instead of throwing last night’s Halloween jack-o’-lantern into the trash, some industrious people are turning old, burned-out carved pumpkins into compost. Composting not only helps your garden, it ...

Composting. It’s kind of like recycling. We all know we should be doing it. It’s not hard, it doesn’t take much effort, but boy is it easy to forget and let good habits slide. Even as a gardener, I’m ...