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Here’s when you should apply compost for healthier plants.

Fall is a perfect time to consider composting. As our days get cooler and shorter, deciduous trees like oaks, maples, and sweetgums will begin to shed their leaves. The swamp chestnut oak in my front ...

The gardening season is also the composting season. Making your own compost — the dark brown, crumbly remains of decayed plants — is a great way to improve your soil, make use of garden waste and ...

There are so many benefits to having your own compost pile. But unpleasant odors are a surefire way to discourage composters from continuing (and the neighbors don’t tend to love it, either!). Whether ...

Also known as “lazy composting,” trench composting needs no bin or turning.

If you’re a gardener, thinking about getting your soil in shape probably means thinking about compost. But composting can be a mysterious process. What can go into the pile? How do you balance carbon ...

My Compost LIFE introduces the lives and initiatives of people who practice a "fun circular life" that spreads from LFC Compost."What is true richness?" Yumi Mori says she encountered LFC Compost ...

While compost is commonly used in vegetable, flower, and herb gardens, home gardeners often overlook the many benefits that compost brings to lawns. Using compost for lawns is an excellent way to both ...

Maggots in compost are almost always black soldier fly larvae, and in most bins they’re harmless. Finding a modest number of them in an active bin is usually a good sign, not a bad one. I’m a ...