Still throwing away food scraps? This is your sign to start composting now

If you haven’t started your composting journey, consider this your sign to begin. Turning your kitchen scraps and backyard ...
WUSA

Garden Smart: How compost can help your garden thrive

WASHINGTON — Think about how much food waste you produce in a day. A banana peel, an apple core, the ends of vegetables that you don’t eat. When those scraps end up in a landfill it produces methane.
Yahoo

Is Seafood Compost The Right Fertilizer For Your Garden? Here's What To Know

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shovel full of compost about to be added to a raised garden - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock So many different types of kitchen ...
Chico Enterprise-Record

Community garden and composting hub in Gridley | The Real Dirt

What can you do with a plot of land that’s empty and full of weeds? Plant a garden and start composting with your neighbors! St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Gridley, with the help of generous grants ...
The Denver Post

Compost happens. But how can you take advantage of it in your own garden?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Compost happens. Yes, this garden alchemy really is that simple. Compost results from the natural cycle of life and death. “Mother Nature takes care of ...
Yahoo

What Is Mushroom Composting—and How It Can Help the Soil in Your Garden

Composting first got popular among home gardeners in the 1970s, but it has seen a resurgence in the last decade or so. "As people are becoming more educated about food waste, they're realizing that ...
Columbus Dispatch

October is the perfect time to start a compost pile: Here's how

Some gardeners have asked if composting garden, yard and food waste is sustainable or beneficial to the environment since the composting process generates lots of carbon dioxide, the principal ...
Deming Headlight

Grow your garden: Composting directly in the garden

Don’t toss those imperfect lettuce leaves, onion tops and strawberry tops into the trash. Instead, convert them into compost right in the garden. Worm and pile composting are great ways to manage ...
The Spokesman-Review

In the Garden: Successful compost needs four things: Brown material, green material, water and oxygen

This simple 3-bay composting system will help Susan Mulvihill create more compost for her garden this year. (SUSAN MULVIHILL/FOR THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW) Buy this photo Compost is an essential ingredient ...
Homes and Gardens on MSN

Never Put These 10 Items in Your Compost Bin, Say Gardening Experts

To help you avoid the worst composting mistakes, we spoke to experts in gardening and horticulture to learn about some of the ...
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Compost tumbler vs. compost bin: Which is best for my garden soil?

Which is best for my garden soil: compost tumblers or compost bins? Composting to feed your garden is a great way to turn waste into gardening gold, but should you opt for a tumbler or a bin? The ...