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 ...

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

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 ...

Q: My husband and I have a conflict over what is suitable material to be composted for our garden. He wants to put meat and bones into the garden, where I understand it should be more vegetable matter ...

It has been a beautiful start to the month of September with warm days and sunny skies. Temperatures, though, are starting to dip to below 10 C at night, which means that some gardening tasks such as ...

Flowering kale or cabbage – Another very popular fall plant in these parts, these richly coloured foliage plants (and yes, ...

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 ...

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 ...