Composting

It's easy to cook up your own compost. Just layer grass clippings with a dash of leaves and twigs to create a concoction that turns into humus -- the best plant food. Compost bins helps contain your compost pile and makes it more attractive. While you can buy a commercial plastic container from a garden center, it's easy to build your own. Find out how!

Composting 101

Compost is the gardener's gumbo. Here's how to clean up your garden and use clippings and twigs to create your own. It's easy to cook up your own compost. Just layer grass clippings with a dash of leaves and twigs to create a concoction that turns into humus -- the best plant food.

Composting Containers

Clean up your garden and use the clippings, leaves, and twigs to create your own compost. Here you will learn about different containters that work well for keeping your compost in.

Weekend Project: Make and Use Compost

Turn grass clippings and kitchen scraps into a gardener's dream soil. Making compost is one of the smartest, most productive things you can do as a gardener. You'll turn yard and kitchen waste into rich, organic matter that's a valuable soil amendment for your garden and yard.

Composting Basics

Making compost is the most satisfying way to recycle your yard debris and improve your soil. A collection of fallen leaves, weeds, prunings, other yard waste, and nonmeat kitchen scraps will decompose in a corner of your yard as they do in nature.

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