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 ...

It's the beginning of April and I wonder how many New Years resolutions are still being kept, probably not many despite the good intentions. But you now have a second chance, by making a new gardening ...

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 ...

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 ...

It takes a combination of middle age and a love of gardening to find a barrow-load of homemade garden compost a peculiarly seductive sight. Certainly my younger self would never have crowed with ...

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 ...

Matt Jordan, gardening expert for The Greenhouse People, has shared some “mistakes” you could be making with your compost, attracting rats into the garden. 1. Getting the wrong ratio of greens and ...

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 ...