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 ...

Whole or carved pumpkins make excellent compost, but not all pumpkins should be composted. Every year, about 1.3 billion pumpkins are thrown in the trash in the United States. However, carved ...

Let’s admit it: Composting outdoors can be a chore, particularly when the weather is bad. Plus, outdoor composters attract rodents and bugs and can irritate neighbours (they tend to smell ...

“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 ...

Electric composters simplify and speed up the natural composting process, turning food scraps into compost more efficiently than manual composting methods. While traditional composting is a great ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you love gardening, you may have already thought of making your own compost. It’s a good way to use the waste from your kitchen and yard to feed the plants and flowers in your garden. Choosing the ...

Dear Heloise: So happy to read your column in the Press of Atlantic City again. We have a huge 150-gallon composter in our backyard, where I deposit lots of vegetable and fruit peelings ...

Composting becomes more and more popular all the time and for good reason. Its healthy for the earth and your garden. And its ...

From the 5,106 tons of compost produced from the AMB's organic solid waste yearly, 113 tons of NPK nutrients (phosphorus 44 tons, potassium 37 tons, and nitrogen 32 tons) could be recovered, in ...