Making and using compost has long been a mainstay of good gardening practices. With a newfound appreciation of biological health that starts with the soil, compost tea is another tool ...

Composting is one of those things that sounds wonderful in theory, but the moment something goes wrong, your whole backyard ...

Forget everything dull and dusty about gardening advice—this is where things get alive. Not metaphorically alive, but ...

There is no reason to spend a dime on fancy fertilizers when a powerful, plant-loving solution already sits in the backyard.

I explain green and brown ingredients, using coffee and other wastes including roots of perennial weeds and blighted leaves.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Making liquid fertilizer maximizes the three main components that make compost and other organic matter so good for gardens and ...