If your goal is to support wildlife in your yard throughout every season, don't shut down your composting operation in the winter. During the cold months, you want to attract tiny critters by ...

Do your garden and the environment a favour by turning organic waste into beautiful rich compost this autumn Garden compost Autumn and winter are times of decay in our gardens. The summer borders ...

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

You may not have even known that you can keep composting in the winter. You can, but doing so requires modifications if you are hot composting, meaning using a balanced mix of carbon-rich and nitrogen ...

Gardeners often assume outdoor compost piles stop working in cold weather, but beneficial microbes can continue to break down compost all winter. The problem is that composting takes much longer in ...

Compost is a fantastic way to give your plants a nutritional boost. And although maintaining a batch is second nature to some gardeners during the growing season, most take a break in winter. But ...

The Occasional Gardener: It's easier to make compost in a wormery that with a compost bin but, since nobody has yet set up a worm kennels for the holidays, it's best to stick with straw. We've all ...