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With plenty of leaves, grass clippings and garden debris available, residents can create compost piles that benefit their gardens.

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Composting is one of the most satisfying ways to turn kitchen scraps and yard waste into rich, fertile soil. But even the most careful composters can face a sneaky problem: hidden diseases lurking in ...

Compost can provide your yard’s gardens and flower, tree and vegetable beds with healthy nutrients that help your plants grow. It’s also great for helping strengthen your soil in floods and droughts, ...

Leaves are beginning to fall from deciduous trees, and this will increase over the next few weeks. The question is, “What do we do with all of those leaves?” I’ve been seeing information online ...

Before you toss that sagging jack-o-lantern, learn how this piece of Halloween waste can get a new life as a soil amendment in next year's spring garden.

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Pumpkins in landfills break down and emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas. There are several places in the Triangle to drop ...