I love the idea of transforming garbage into free mulch and fertilizer. Composting is a win-win: I save money and keep my ...

A compost chimney is a simple addition to any pile that can speed up the composting process and eliminate slow or smelly ...

MICHAEL SCHNEIDER Special contribution to the Peninsula Pulse Composting can seem difficult, even a little intimidating, for ...

The following is an excerpt from “Compost After Reading: A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition” by Cassandra Marketos. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this ...

Dear Heloise: How much longer do we have to put up with tubes of toothpaste that we can’t empty like we used to by rolling up the tube? I have to cut open the tube, where almost one-third of the ...

DALLESPORT — For Pierce Louis, work is a dirty business. As co-owner and co-founder of Dirt Hugger, a Dallesport commercial composting and landscape supply company, Louis has spent the past 16 years ...

The view of a quiet tree nursery from Bob Hering’s 6-acre farm tucked off a winding road in Calverton is now obstructed by towering piles of compost. Hering and his neighbors on Youngs Avenue say the ...

Is it OK to use fresh wood chips in my perennial flower beds? In general, fresh wood chips are fine to use on the surface of a perennial bed, as a top dressing. It is not good to mix fresh chips into ...

If you have read my columns for a few years, you will know I am crazy about compost. It satisfies my parsimony and indolence: a compost pile costs nothing, and even if you do nothing to it, it will ...

A case in northern North Dakota has provided a stark reminder of what is required of livestock producers when animals die. The Ward County Sheriff's Department on March 6 said it is investigating a ...

The colorful milk snake was found under a neighbor's compost pile yards away from the reptile's home getty A missing pet milk snake was found under a compost heap in Donington, England, 15 months ...

Composting. It’s kind of like recycling. We all know we should be doing it. It’s not hard, it doesn’t take much effort, but boy is it easy to forget and let good habits slide. Even as a gardener, I’m ...