It takes time to make compost. Organic matter requires about two to three months to break down in hot compost piles, and up to a year or more in cold composting systems. But if you add a compost ...

Compost can provide your yard’s gardens and flower, tree and vegetable beds with healthy nutrients that help your plants grow. It’s also great for helping strengthen your soil in floods and droughts, ...

Food waste is a significant contributor to greenhouse gasses and accounts for roughly one third of the food meant for human consumption. Composting is the process by which food is converted into a ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever looked at your yard in autumn and wondered what to do with all those leaves, you’re not alone. Fall brings a unique chance to kick off a compost pile that’s both practical and ...

Turning compost piles provides more air to beneficial microbes, helping to speed up the composting process and creating enough heat to kill weed seeds, pests, and pathogens. Aim to turn a hot compost ...

Although composting is a rewarding thing to do as a gardener, many novices are a little nervous to get started because it's a bit of a science and can be a messy, smelly addition to the yard. However, ...

Gardeners are encouraged to compost leaves this fall to improve soil health. With plenty of leaves, grass clippings and garden debris available, residents can create compost piles that benefit the ...

Fall is a perfect time to consider composting. As our days get cooler and shorter, deciduous trees like oaks, maples, and sweetgums will begin to shed their leaves. The swamp chestnut oak in my front ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I cogitate on the methods and outcome of home composting, I often think of the title of the classic compost book, “Let it Rot” by Stu Campbell. The book ...

If you’ve just started composting, you might wonder how to speed up compost so it’s completely decomposed and usable. It’s not hard to do! As long as you have the right balance of greens to browns, ...