Leaves are a gardener's best friend. Consider their landscape value; leaves from one large tree can be worth as much as $50 worth of fertilizer. Leaves have twice as many minerals as manure. When they ...

Tampa (BLOOM) – Are you looking for an easy way to make your garden more sustainable? Look no further than composting! Composting is a simple and eco-friendly way to turn your food scraps and yard ...

Key Points Winter compost doesn't generate enough heat to remove contaminants.Don't add animal waste and chemically treated ...

Composting is a good practice for all gardeners who have the space for it. The good thing is you can make it as simple or as complicated as you want, and unless you choose to buy a composter, it can ...

Incorporating composting into your gardening routine is a great way to reduce waste and add nutrients and organic matter to your yard. It is basically creating free fertilizer while sending much less ...

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 ...

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.

FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - Composting should be considered a civic duty as well as a gift to your garden or landscape. I compost and if you have the space, you should as well. It is estimated ...

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 ...

A desire to encourage local residents to dig into composting for themselves is behind the SCREC’s partnership with OC Waste & ...

PHOENIX — Can you actually save money by gardening and composting? We went to the Arizona Worm Farm at the base of South Mountain to find out. Zach Brooks, the man behind the worms, is the owner of ...

There's one simple but essential gardening task to do in January, according to Monty Don. I followed his expert advice and ...