Got some leftover materials from your yard or kitchen? It’s time to turn them into something that will help your garden! Instead of throwing out food scraps or fallen leaves, you can turn them into ...

While compost is commonly used in vegetable, flower, and herb gardens, home gardeners often overlook the many benefits that compost brings to lawns. Using compost for lawns is an excellent way to both ...

Just in time for peak leaf-raking season, the National Wildlife Federation is out with a new survey showing that although nearly three-quarters of people know that fallen leaves are beneficial to ...

What if you could save money, grow a wildly productive garden, use less water and cut back on adding waste to the landfill — all while nature does most of the heavy lifting? Those are just some of the ...

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Many landscape plants can benefit greatly from amended soil. Our native sandy soil drains readily and doesn’t do so well with holding on to soil nutrients and water. But you can produce your own ...

Q: I’m adding compost to some areas in my yard for fall planting. I have compacted clay soil that I’m attempting to rehabilitate. Before adding the compost, should I spray actively aerated compost tea ...

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Twenty miles south of Boise, crews at the city compost farm are bracing for the busy season. “Grass season,” as compost program director Lisa Knapp calls it, means bag after bag of lawn clippings and ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...