A great source of bulky, organic material is your own garden compost. The best time to make some is in spring, because it will rot down faster. It’s dead easy to make, it costs nothing and it does the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Compost is a mixture of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land. Raw organic waste becomes a nutrient-rich soil amendment when properly composted.

Growing vegetable marrows on a compost heap is a long-standing gardening tradition. Their roots permeate the rotting material where they find plentiful nutrients and moisture, while their luxuriant ...

POLOKWANE – “Compost and coating is not the same. Coating can be bark chips or nut shells or even Autumn leaves. Compost is the product of a bit more effort. Use as much good compost as possible ...

The scale of the UK’s food waste problem is overwhelming. In the UK, we throw away seven million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year, according to the Food Standards Agency. Fancy ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. A. It is not considered ...

A gardening expert has shared the mistakes some people could be making with their compost heaps. Matt Jordan, a gardening expert for The Greenhouse People, has warned that you could be attracting rats ...

Having a compost heap in your garden is a hugely beneficial way to make use of your waste - but did you know you should be watering it regularly? By having a compost heap in your garden you can make ...

This is a halfreel film telling its audience how to use inedible parts of plants from their garden to make compost It seems pretty basic stuff but there were a lot of city boys working in what were ...

Q. Is it a beneficial practice to sprinkle lime on each added layer of a compost heap? A. It is not considered beneficial. Lime reacts with the nitrogen in soft, green materials to cause the release ...