If you haven’t started your composting journey, consider this your sign to begin. Turning your kitchen scraps and backyard ...

Composting is a great way to keep food scraps and plant clippings out of the landfill, while creating a valuable garden resource for free. However, getting the process right is a bit of a science and ...

Many gardeners add compost to their landscape or vegetable beds as fertilizer. Compost is organic matter that contains the macro nutrients needed by the plant. Inorganic fertilizers provide plants ...

Compost is made up of decomposed organic matter that enriches your soil and provides food for your plants. If you're a dedicated composter, you need to be very careful about what goes into your pile, ...

If you’ve just started composting, you might wonder how to speed up compost so it’s completely decomposed and usable. It’s not hard to do! As long as you have the right balance of greens to browns, ...

One month ago, the average cost of a regular gallon of gas in Texas was around $2.67, according to AAA. Since then, the cost has gone down to around $2.46 per gallon. “It’s nice to see them coming ...

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

The promise is simple. A small backyard setup is supposed to transform all sorts of kitchen waste into a nutrient-dense compost, a material so prized by gardeners that they gave it the nickname “black ...

Joseph Seago tells how to care for cool-season lawns, and Tonya Ashworth builds a compost pile. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Agent Joseph Seago discusses how ...

You probably expect this to be another feel-good story about sustainability and backyard bins. It's not. Let's be real, ...