Making your own compost is a great way to improve your soil, make use of garden waste and recycle nutrients for your plants ...

You're probably used to composting salad scraps, fallen leaves, and lawn trimmings, but a walk around your home may reveal ...

Your compost pile will be a mix of “browns” and “greens”. Together, with water and air, these materials will decompose and transform into a soil amendment. ISTOCK PHOTO Your compost pile will be a mix ...

Leaves are beginning to fall from deciduous trees, and this will increase over the next few weeks. The question is, “What do we do with all of those leaves?” I’ve been seeing information online ...

Compost is almost a jack-of-all-trades, as it fertilizes and improves the soil. But if these effects are absent, the problems are often self-inflicted. myHOMEBOOK reveals how to avoid mistakes when ...

Food scraps and paper aren't the only compost ingredients worth considering, and one unusual household item could help your ...

Just in time for peak leaf-raking season, the National Wildlife Federation is out with a new survey showing that although nearly three-quarters of people know that fallen leaves are beneficial to ...

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 ...

Compost bins are full of food scraps, so naturally, they might attract pests. Ward them off and prevent future problems with ...