Transform your gardening routine with this smart, eco-friendly upgrade—a compact compost bin made from a recycled tank. In ...

Drill holes around the container for aeration and lift it slightly off the ground to allow drainage—simple tweaks that ...

Kate Nevins, a residential landscape designer, is accustomed to getting her hands dirty. But when she found a free compost tumbler through a local Facebook group last spring, she took the opportunity ...

As a new gardener, I thought I could stick any plant in the ground, and with a little sunshine and water, it would flourish. When my most basic efforts did not produce a gorgeous and abundant garden, ...

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Shortly after moving into my rental in 2017, I delightedly discovered three compost bays already built down the back of the garden. It took me five years to realise those cruddy old bays were the main ...

According to Marcus Bridgewater, composting is a lot like driving a car. “You can say driving is just about getting in the car and pressing the gas pedal,” the gardener, CEO of Choice Forward, and ...

A well-managed pile reaches 130 to 160°F in the active phase. Hot composting at those temperatures kills most weed seeds and ...

Bokashi, fermented organic matter, has been used for years in Korean and Japanese natural farming. An important ingredient in making bokashi is EM-1. This collection of micronutrients, developed in ...

Andy Tullis / The BulletinBulletin reporter Laura Kessinger, drills holes in a compost barrel. I grew up composting at my best friend’s house. Her parents — not surprisingly — had one of the most ...

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 ...