Adding compost to your garden soil is a step that you really shouldn't be skipping. A well-made compost is the key to soil health because it adds essential nutrients, improves soil structure, and ...

Stop! Don’t toss those vegetable leaves until you try this garden hack! 🌿💡 In this video, we’ll show you how to repurpose vegetable leaves for better soil health, composting, and even as natural ...

In this video, I show you how to compost shredded paper to make rich, fertile, plant food and soil improver. Why waste paper ...

Home composting is no small solution, as the average American family of four tosses out about $150 worth of food — mostly fruits and veggies — per month, according to the Natural Resources Defense ...

Q: Every morning we have coffee grounds left after our breakfast coffee. I wondered if it would be a good idea to dump them around my smallish vegetable and raspberry garden rather than throwing them ...

Walk into your garden, and you’re surrounded by black gold. It’s under your feet after you mow your grass, in the garden when you pull spent plants, and in the leaves that fall from your trees. It’s ...

One of the more helpful characteristics of much of our soil on the coast is how well is drains. Most of our substrate is a sandy loam that filters moisture quickly and keeps areas from pooling with ...

CORVALLIS – Adding organic matter is the best way to improve nearly all kinds of soils. If you’re unsure if your soil needs amendments, take note if it dries and cracks in summer, drains slowly or is ...

Winter is the perfect time to sketch out no-till beds, set up a compost system, and choose native plants for spring.

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