Soil

Composting is one of the best things you can do for the environment, as well as for your lawn and garden. It can be accomplished even in the smallest of outdoor spaces without worrying about lots...

Compost is the black gold of gardening---with many metro governments encouraging city residents to reduce waste through composting, why not give it a try? Vermicompost is a great indoor or...

Composting is not only great for your garden, it's great for the environment too. The process is quite simple, and doesn't require any specialized equipment, chemicals or skill. All you need for a...

Lemons are a useful fruit for many different cleaning jobs around the house. Gardeners also find lemon rinds to be useful for composting. When creating a compost mixture, nitrogen-rich "green"...

Ordinary newspaper can be a successful component of rich, useful garden compost. Newsprint is composed primarily of plant fiber, and modern newspaper inks are made from a safe soybean oil base....

Turn your vegetable scraps into rich soil with worms. Watch microorganisms and macroorganisms at work. Composting with redworms allows them to digest and break down garbage; it also reduces plant...

Getting natural, it's all the rage. And making your own compost right at home should give any greenie something to smile about. Soil has naturally occurring bacteria that break down organic waste...

About 75 percent of household waste can be made into excellent fertilizer for flower and vegetable gardens provided that beneficial organic waste is used and it is processed correctly. Composting,...

A worm farm is a cheap and easy way to make compost, get rid of food scraps, and have an endless supply of fishing bait. When selecting the type of worms, do not dig them out of your garden, buy...

A compost bin turns decomposing food scraps and yard waste into rich garden soil. However, adding the wrong ingredients can cause foul odors and attract unwanted pests. Use the right ingredients,...

Any gardener who has pushed their hands into a pile of deep, black loamy soil will tell you that good soil is better than gold. A great way to improve garden soil is to practice vermicomposting,...

Anyone who has pet rabbits knows how much rich manure they produce each day. Since rabbits are herbivores, their manure contains excellent nutrients for your garden soil. Rabbit pellets can be...

Maintaining a healthy compost bin is all about taking care of worms. Keeping the worms well fed is the key to successful compost. Making your own compost indoors is an environmentally friendly way...

One of the easiest ways to reduce your trash, reuse kitchen and gardening scraps and do your plants and flowers a favor is to start composting. While you can purchase compost kits, bins and sets...

Vermicomposting is the process of using worms to create nutrient-rich compost (called castings) from household food scraps. This self-contained, ecologically friendly activity requires little...

Raising earthworms in a worm bin or in the soil of your garden is a natural way to keep your garden healthy. The worms' waste, called castings, is a nitrogen-rich, loamy fertilizer you can use to...

Here’s a straightforward, simple way to compost kitchen scraps that costs next to nothing and won’t create a big ugly pile that has your neighbors complaining. It’s not even a pile, and it does...

All gardens--whether ornamental or vegetable--need the proper balance of nutrients in the soil to thrive. Plants constantly strip the soil of these nutrients, so for a show-stopping yard or...

Popular in Japan, Bokashi is a composting method for recycling household food scraps into a useable soil amendment and adding organic material to your garden. Bokashi is different from composting...

Learning how to compost in an apartment can be rewarding. Living in an apartment means living green on a smaller scale. If you have a small patio or balcony you can have a compost bin that will...

This article will tell you how to use ordinary vegetable cuttings and other food scraps to create fertilizer/compost for use in your yard or garden.

Although I lived on a small farm and had a lot of experience with different kinds of farm animals, I had never really thought about composting in a big way, mainly because I did not have a green...

Worms can be used for many things. They can be used for gardens to get bigger tastier food, composts for good soil, and for fishing bait. The thing is, I don't have a place where I can get bait...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, nearly a quarter of municipal solid waste is comprised of yard trimmings and compostable kitchen scraps. Composting is a great way to put...

Vermiculture, or composting with worms, is becoming popular with those who are interested in composting but don't have a lot of space--especially true for those who live in urban areas. Red worms...

Whether you just want to save your kitchen scraps from the land fills or create "black gold" for your garden- you CAN compost! From a studio apartment to the south forty... what suits...

It is summertime, and the weather is fine! You rearing to go and ready for some good quality time with the much-in-need-of-life sand plot in your backyard. You have been planning all winter and...

Any gardener who knows their Zinnia from their Azalea will tell you that adding compost to your garden soil is the key step to having an above average garden. Composting doesn't have to be...

Worms are the guts of the earth and a simple act of feeding them your kitchen scraps and wasted paper products could save tons of landfill space each day.

Gardeners gold as its also known as is the best soil you can get for your garden. Compost adds much needed nutrients and moisture retaining elements to your garden.

Gardening has become a favorite pastime of many people, and even a full-blown hobby for some. These days, it is not uncommon to hear of or see people participating in gardening trade shows and...

Indoor composting is an efficient way to recycle kitchen scraps into a rich nutritious garden soil amendment. Don't worry; indoor composting does not have to be smelly. Automatic composters come...

A lot of gardeners would like to know how to compost. This is because composting is an easy way to get rid of any lawn and garden debris. It is also 1 of the best ways in which to feed your...

Composting is easy. It can drastically reduce the amount of garbage you throw away and can be a great fertilizer for your yard and garden. There are many different types of compost bins out there...

Most instructions on how to compost say not to put in meat or dairy but mother nature composts those things all the time. I compost ALL of my food scraps and so can you.

Your worms have been working hard on your kitchen scraps, but how do you get the compost out?

The benefits of backyard composting are many. Reducing greenhouse gases from landfills, saving money on chemical fertilizers, and creating a nutrient-rich soil for your yard are just some of the...

Composting is nature's way of recycling and transforming the natural nutrients of waste organic matter into usable nutrition for plants. Composting helps cut down your household garbage. On...

With a simple and inexpensive worm bin you can recycle every scrap of paper and cardboard that comes into your home! This will greatly reduce the total volume of junk ending up in our landfils,...

Worms naturally spend time eating and reproducing, so why not put them to work for you? Worms reduce food waste into healthy supplies of beneficial compost. You can blend the compost into your...

A compost provides a precious assortment of nutrients for your garden. It gives your garden moisture, natural fertilizer, and natural pest killers.

Composting is a process through which you can turn your kitchen scraps and yard debris into material that will help improve the quality of your garden soil. Compost helps to add nutrients to...

Making your own compost can be very rewarding for your plants, and provides a better source of organic matter for your garden then you can buy in any store. Here are a few simple tips on how you...

Farm your own worms on kitchen scraps and waste paper, and reap castings for your garden and worms for fishing bait! Earthworm castings add active microbial life to soil while slowly releasing...

Making your own compost is a vital aspect to growing an organic garden. The right compost will effectively introduce bacteria, worms, and insects which all encourage robust plant growth. It also...

You see tons of how-to articles on composting, but they never seem as easy as they say. Or they want you to buy a lot of stuff. I scrounged everything for mine, and it is easy, fun, and...

Vermicomposting, or composting with worms, can provide you with nutrient rich worm castings for your garden and houseplants. You can conduct vermicomposting on a small scale and you can even keep...