I’ve written several articles on how to start raised garden beds—including what to put in the very bottom of raised beds to get the most out of them—but when I started composting in my...

Last year, my neighbor had a truckload of wood chips delivered to his property by a local arborist, and he told me I could carry away as much as I wanted to use in my backyard garden and around my...

Diatomaceous earth (DE) has a well-deserved reputation as a natural and effective pest control. You’ve got to be careful when using it—which I’ll explain in more detail below—but overall, I'm...

Composting is kind of magical (seriously...here’s why). You take something you can’t eat or don’t want, you toss it in a pile of other stuff you can’t eat or don’t want, then you wait...

Composting is one of the cheapest ways to create great garden soil, turning kitchen scraps and yard waste into rich, nourishing soil amendments. But when you set up a compost bin for the first...

As an longtime gardener, I hate to toss something in the trash or recycling bin that could have instead gone in my compost heap to help out my garden later in the year. But what about the leftover...