Mushroom compost is made from spent mushroom farming substrate. It's now widely available, and there are lots of reasons you should use it on your veggie patch.

Gardening expert, Simon Akeroyd has revealed how to create a small compost heap that can be used to plant vegetables in March ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever tried to give your garden a magical boost, you’ve probably heard of compost tea. It’s like giving your plants a spa day in liquid form—nutrient-rich, microbial-packed, and ready to wake ...

Fall is the ideal time to create a compost pile, but keep in mind that the compost you start now may not be ready to use until next summer. Here is how you can get started this week, or next, because ...

While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...

Manure-based compost piles can be more work and take more time than piles fueled by kitchen scraps. But the rewards are too good to pass up. Many horse and mule stables in the area offer free manure ...

The goal of keeping things as natural as possible also means that home gardeners are concerned about the fertilizer they use.