It may well be that the garden is the last place on Earth where patience is a virtue. Creating humus, the magical end product of decomposing compost, takes time. Humus, when added to the soil, imbues ...

I am writing down this recipe because Verna has been bragging about my humus to her friend Teri. My humus is different every time I make it, but Verna must have tasted one of the good batches. Then ...

Even in the garden, “waste not, want not” is good advice. To keep useful nutrients and organic matter in your yard and put them to work, make compost from your yard waste. “Compost is basically just ...

With autumn leaves falling all around us, there’s no better time to begin composting than now. Why let the city remove those valuable leaves when you can easily transform them into the best soil ...

It wasn’t too many years ago that in October and November, we could smell the smoke from burning leaves almost every day. Gardeners who knew about the potential benefits of those leaves were ...

What is this thing we call Composting?? Composting is nature’s ultimate form of recycling. It is the decomposition of plant remains and other once-living materials to make an earthy, dark, crumbly ...

What’s your gardening style? The way we garden can determine whether we are increasing or decreasing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Carbon has been on my mind lately following the release of ...

Composting is the process where organic waste biodegrades naturally into nutrient-rich soil, which can then be used to grow new organic matter, but if the idea of composting invokes images of a smelly ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. COSTA GEORGIADIS: Worms create humus-rich soil, so everything we can do to help them, the better. Two ...

UNDER this title, Mr. G. V. Jacks, deputy-director of the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science, Rothamsted, delivered a lecture on February 12 to the Royal Society of Arts, in which he dealt with the ...