The best gardeners know the simple truth about compost: It’s better than fertilizer when it comes to providing a nutrient-rich growing environment for plants. Composting is easy and inexpensive, and ...

The best compost bins can handle everything from your morning coffee and eggs, to the veggie stir fry you had for dinner and any additional scraps, peels and grounds over the course of a day.

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Setting up an in-home recycling program isn't so hard these days, particularly since the majority of our local garbage haulers allow items to be "co-mingled." Co-mingling describes the practice of ...

Using a compost heap is a great way of putting food waste to use, but that waste can take several weeks or longer to become compost – in the meantime, it may stink or attract pests. The indoor Kalea ...

Readers have weighed in recently with comments and questions on compost, winter vegetables, spinach and sources for broccolini seed and Puget Summer strawberries. Comment: Re the compost column. In ...

Composting is beneficial to gardeners and the environment, but to make the most of it, you need to discover which method best suits your situation and needs.

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diegans are recycling more than twice as much organic waste under a comprehensive new city program that has delivered more than 200,000 green waste containers and compost ...