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Hot weather can turn a compost pile into a fast-moving recycling machine, but only when the balance stays just right. Summer ...

If you're in need of more green material for your compost, this often-overlooked and frequently trashed fruit scrap could ...

Summer is the time for toasting marshmallows in the backyard fire pit. Make starting the fire easier with a food you probably ...

Boost your garden's productivity with these soil additives.

Dyed mulch fills millions of American garden beds, sold as tidy and long-lasting. But the recycled wood underneath the color ...

Perlite, vermiculite, and zeolite are among the most popular soil additives in gardening and are often offered together. Although all three materials can improve the soil, they differ significantly ...

Compostable plastics could be part of a solution to the world's plastic waste problem. But currently these materials need industrial composting facilities to break down. In a step toward making a home ...

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences researchers engineer a smart compost additive that traps nitrogen, boosts fertilizer quality, and rewires microbial activity The research team, led by Qingwen ...

Grass clippings aren't the only yard waste that's ideal for your compost. Your trees naturally shed another material that ...

Compostable plastics could be part of a solution to the world’s plastic waste problem. But currently these materials need industrial composting facilities to break down. In a step toward making a home ...

PLA plastic (left piece) usually takes months to break down in industrial composting facilities, but incorporating a sprinkling of an organic additive dramatically speeds the process for a modified ...