Make better compost when you understand how to balance the ingredients of your heap. Have fun trying different combinations, ...

I explain green and brown ingredients, using coffee and other wastes including roots of perennial weeds and blighted leaves. What size pieces to add, what temperatures you need and may expect. How ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to make large ...

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather’s compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre high and hidden behind a privet hedge. We had placed ...

As pretty as a snowfall can be, cold weather has a way of making your garden or yard look tired and in need of a reset. Garden beds filled with dead plants can look and feel cluttered and unkempt once ...

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my affiliate policy. Maggots are a common sight in compost piles and bins, but what do they do? What kind of maggots should you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adding kitchen scraps to compost bin. Composting is a more complicated business than many give it credit for. Get it wrong and you ...