Garden Tools & Supplies

Every vegetable or flower garden needs compost added to it in order for plants to grow successfully. Kitchen scraps and garden snippings can easily be converted to compost for next year's garden...

A back porch compost tumbler provides convenience and ease of use. This low-cost, simple design requires no special tools or equipment. You can put together a small, rotating composer in an...

The traditional method of composting is to simply pile vegetable scraps, grass clippings, leaves and other materials into a heap and turn them regularly until they become a dark, soil like...

When gardeners talk about maturing compost, they mean the same thing as when they talk about aging or finishing compost. Unfinished compost still contains the microbes that carry out the...

Composting organic material is the process of rotting. As material decomposes, it turns into rich, black, crumbly soil. This soil can be left on the surface of the garden or lawn as a mulch or...

According to the Green Chronicle, garden trugs began life in Anglo Saxon times, when the vessels were carved from wood and resembled the Saxon's round coracle boats. Because the trugs were very...

Compost provides fertilizer and planting material by taking organic matter and turning it into rich, black soil. It is less expensive and harmful than chemical fertilizers and turns everyday...

Manure is one of the oldest fertilizers in existence. It's a natural alternative to pricy store-bought fertilizers. Create a master plan for your garden before you start fiddling around with...

Compost is so valuable to some gardeners that they call it black gold. But to turn kitchen scraps into compost, many gardeners will construct huge piles and fill them with rotting leaves, coffee...

Grass clippings, leaves and tree trimmings often seem to multiply in even the smallest backyards. According to the SDSU Cooperative Extension, lawn debris represents "50 percent of the total...

Constructing an outdoor compost bin is an environmentally friendly way to keep vegetable waste matter and yard debris out of landfills. Compost bins do not take up much room and properly...

Composting organic material in the garden is faster with compost bins because they can be rotated to increase aerobic activity. Turning any compost pile will facilitate decomposition, but spinning...

Don't have enough room for an enormous garden or would like to try gardening year around? I have made a garden box completly for free. It is used year around for tomato, lettuce, broccoli, okra,...

A successful garden and landscaping project requires good soil and nutrients. Rather than purchasing commercial fertilizer, composting is a cost-effective, environmentally friendly method to...

Compost can be hard to spread as it is heavy when it is damp and not spreadable even when dry. This makes it important that you use a compost spreader so that you are not taking forever trying to...

With sunny weather also comes the hankering to get out into your garden and work with your hands. But if you're not careful, you'll watch your garden dollars go into the ground with no money tree...

How to make a cheap compost bin will walk you step by step and get you on your way to being a little more green.

Compost Keepers for the kitchen counter top are all the rage right now. These kitchen waste compost holders are a temporary storage solution for kitchen leftover organic material until the compost...

If you have ever had some old tires sitting around that you hate to throw away but you just don't know what to do with. Well here is one idea, instead of paying to have them hauled away, or going...

Some of the biggest environmental mistakes are made in our own front (or back) yards. From the chemicals we use to the water we waste, only to end up with dry, brown grass. The following eHow...

Compost is organic material that includes leaves, twigs and even kitchen refuse that comes from plants. This organic material can be collected, encouraged to decompose and then used to improve...

Each year millions of households perform an almost ritual cleanup of their yard area. In most cases they round up the mostly organic material in suitable piles and then stuff it in large, usually...

Don't throw those coffee grounds away, instead give them to your plants. This article will show you how your coffee grounds can give your plants the same kind of pick-me-up that your coffee...

I've talked about wet-weather and dry-weather compost, so now I want to discuss the easiest compost ever. This is a compost that anyone can do...honest, just give it a try...

Compost Tea is a simple organic fertilizer. It can be used as foliar (leaf applied) fertilizer as well. It can be used to fertilize the entire garden.

Congratulations! You’ve decided to start composting! Composting is a great way to use organic waste that would otherwise end up in landfills, while also providing nutrient rich soil for your...

Unglazed terracotta pots are great, inexpensive containers for planting annual flowers and vegetables, but they tend to crack, break and crumble if left outdoors for the winter. Why? Terracotta is...

Are you cooking yet? You don't know? Why not? Oh, you need to get yourself a Compost Thermometer so you know how to optimize the temperature and you know exactly when to turn your compost.

One of the biggest problems with container gardening is maintaining moisture. Water retaining gel, when mixed with compost, can help to keep your plants moist by absorbing and retaining up to 400...

So you have tons of leaves in the fall to get rid of and you may even pay extra to have them removed but why? If you have the extra space to age them this could be some of the best garden supply...

Modern farming and the floral trade rely heavily on chemicals to produce high yields from limited land. However, chemical pesticides and fertilizers were unknown less than a century ago. You can...

When you look for tools to start a large garden, there are a number of factors to consider before purchasing. The amount of work to be done, whether you'll compost, types of pest control used and...

Get to know fish emulsion and alfalfa pellets, composted manure and rock phosphate, greensand and Epsom salts. Make bone meal and blood meal your allies, and fertilize all parts of your landscape...