Studies have shown that adding molasses or other sugars to the soil before planting crops is beneficial. Learn how to use molasses in your garden, compost pile, and worm bin the right way.

Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment and you’ll find “compost activators” offered. These mixtures contain beneficial micro-organisms, ...

Look on the shelves of almost any store or in any catalog selling plants and gardening equipment and you’ll find compost activators offered. These mixtures contain beneficial microorganisms, nutrients ...

It takes time to make compost. Organic matter requires about two to three months to break down in hot compost piles, and up to a year or more in cold composting systems. But if you add a compost ...

Probably the oldest existing reference to the use of manure in agriculture is found on a set of clay tablets found in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) 1,000 years before Moses. The Bible, Sir Walter Raleigh ...

I’ve been feeling wasteful lately when I’m disposing of unused veggies or food scraps and with three children in the house, there is a lot of waste. Composting has been on my to-do list for some time ...