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10 composting methods: How to choose the best one for your garden

Composting is beneficial to gardeners and the environment, but to make the most of it, you need to discover which method best ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Put worms to work making compost for your Sonoma County garden

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...
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Compost experts reveal the best time to start a compost heap – here's when you should put your food scraps to good use

Making your own compost for your yard is a brilliant way to repurpose organic waste, like food and plant scraps, and feed ...
NOLA.com

Start a compost pile with falling leaves and use it to enrich your garden beds. Here's how.

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 ...
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10 Green Materials That Give Your Compost Pile A Serious Nitrogen Boost

Compost is made up of "brown" materials rich in carbon and "green" materials rich in nitrogen. Here are some key green materials to help your garden flourish.
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From classroom to compost: Local students turn food waste into garden gold

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — Reading, writing, arithmetic and gardening? Yep, you heard that right. Students at one Mount Pleasant elementary school have the chance to get out in the garden to work ...