Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. Build a compost pile as you would craft a lasagna. Construct the pile by alternating 2-inch layers of brown (dead leaves, wood chips, straw) and green ...
If you're cleaning out your fireplace, don't throw away that wood ash. It contains many helpful nutrients that could benefit your rose bushes.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Compost is a mixture of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land. Raw organic waste becomes a nutrient-rich soil amendment when properly composted.
If you compost at home, keep these things away from your bin ...