The best gardeners know the simple truth about compost: It’s better than fertilizer when it comes to providing a nutrient-rich growing environment for plants. Composting is easy and inexpensive, and ...

Composting is a simple, economical way to recycle your kitchen scraps and yard trimmings. Adding finished compost to our soil improves its structure and health, as well increases its pore space and ...

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 ...

Composting is beneficial to gardeners and the environment, but to make the most of it, you need to discover which method best ...

Compost contains nutrients that help plants grow. You can use compost as a mulch around garden plants, trees, and shrubs. Mulch protects the soil and shades out weed seeds. Nutrients from the mulch ...

As the growing season draws to a close and your garden beds are filled with dead plants, consider adding them to your compost ...

It’s a pretty simple equation: you’ll need browns, greens, water, oxygen and patience. The result is gold. Actually, the result is compost, but if you have a garden, you know compost is its own form ...

At SWACO, diverting waste from the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill is at the heart of everything we do. The more waste we can divert through recycling, the more we can help our environment. Our ...

Winter is the perfect time to sketch out no-till beds, set up a compost system, and choose native plants for spring.

Autumn frosts usually means lots of clean up around the yard and garden. Why not turn that yard waste into treasure? Composting is a naturally occurring process that breaks down organic materials into ...

Fall is a perfect time to consider composting. As our days get cooler and shorter, deciduous trees will begin to shed their leaves. I can remember as a kid raking up at least 80 bags a year of live ...

The tree limbs and yard waste residents leave out for the city may come back to them as compost for plants. Organic items picked up by Environmental Services are taken to the city’s compost facility, ...