Want to learn how to make compost for your garden? Not only does compost help your plants grow stronger and healthier, but it's also the perfect way to reduce waste and do your part for the ...

Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to make large batches. Pour blender compost around plants, or into trenches, compost ...

My office is just down the road from the Washington State University composting facility. It processes more than 10,000 pounds of organic waste every month. That’s a lot of compost! I talked about ...

When I saw an advertisement about Martha Stewart being a dirt nerd, I recalled a column I did a number of years ago. I had met someone who made a business out of making compost. Then I looked at my ...

Now is the perfect time to start a compost pile or two if you don’t already have one. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By ...

Every gardener wants to know how to improve the soil in his or her vegetable plot. And I've learned, from decades of experience, that the most natural way is the best. Compost, the organic gardener's ...

If you're lacking material for your compost pile, peruse your pantry before making your breakfast in the morning. You may ...

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 ...

Christine Wanjiku prepares compost for her button mushrooms at her farm in Kenol, Muranga County where she grows and markets, mushrooms for sale. [Lydiah Nyawira, Standard] Compost-making shouldn't be ...