Henry Homeyer says it is important to clean up the vegetable garden now in order to avoid overwintering diseases.

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Adding biochar to compost cuts methane and nitrous oxide emissions. It helps composting become more climate friendly.

Food waste amounts to 92 billion pounds annually, according to the nonprofit group Feeding America. Though food doesn’t last ...

While you can't let fallen leaves cover a lawn all winter, you can mulch them instead of raking. As a bonus, the mulched ...

Dig carefully. Use a gardening fork or shovel to gently loosen the soil beneath the tubers and lift the potatoes by their ...

The gardening literature includes a wide range of instructions for implementing this process, which is also referred to as ...

Most of us rarely think about where our garbage goes — but for staff at the Steinbach landfill, every day is full of ...

It’s frustrating when you put effort into your garden only to find cats using it as a toilet. Whether it’s […] ...

Composting is one of those processes you've probably heard of, without being quite sure what it is. At a basic level, ...