An expert with Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Dallas offers tips for effective composting — plus, what ...

A simple compost bin can just be a pile of yard waste in the corner of the yard. From there, you can move up to an enclosed space, such as a piece of chicken wire shaped into a vertical cylinder ...

Composting weeds seems like an easy way to avoid waste and add to your compost pile. Our expert explains how to do it ...

Be sure to make the pile high because the leaves will provide ... around two to three years but it will make a good mulch.

When composting we focus on chopping up the organic matter, providing oxygen, making sure there is enough nitrogen in the pile and keeping the organic matter moist. SMALL PIECES: Chopping or ...

Gardeners often assume outdoor compost piles stop working in cold weather, but beneficial microbes can continue to break down compost all winter. The problem is that composting takes much longer ...

However, as long as bread, pasta, and other starchy foods aren’t saturated in meat and dairy products, they are perfectly safe for the compost pile. Bread contains a fair amount of nitrogen ...