Did you know that you don't have to throw away all the fallen leaves in your yard? Leaves are a valuable source of nutrients ...

Want to learn how to make compost for your garden? Not only does compost help your plants grow stronger and healthier, but it's also the perfect way to reduce waste and do your part for the ...

A shovel full of compost about to be added to a raised garden - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock So many different types of kitchen scraps can be reused in your garden as a natural fertilizer, and ...

'Fall is a great time to supercharge your compost with shredded leaves,' adds Colleen Falicki, founder of Back to Earth Compost. Once you collect fallen leaves, use a garden shredder (from Amazon) or ...

So you've got your compost ready for the next gardening season. Maybe you even learned how to make your own DIY compost. But how much compost does your garden soil really need? Composting is one of ...

Every spring, I empty the enclosures holding “finished” compost and spread that compost over vegetable plots prior to ...

What can gardeners use that isn't so bad for the climate? Peat has been a staple ingredient of composts sold in British garden centres since the 1960s, even though it’s not actually that nutritious ...

By now, you’ve probably noticed that the garden centres and corner stores are starting to fill up with potted mums. Now, mums are a classic – ...

At some point in every Canadian summer the lush, green carpet that effortlessly sprung forth in March, degrades into a mass of shriveled, sunburned, blades of grass. So why do we bother with lawns at ...

“Pretty much everything you grow in the garden is going to need fertilizer at some point,” says Emma Erler, Homegrown NH host and lead horticulturist at Kirkwood Gardens at Squam Lakes Natural Science ...