Composting has long been recognized as a crucial building block for healthy soil and a successful garden. But gardeners who spend months making their own natural compost should reconsider simply ...

Numerous challenges exist in organic greenhouse production, one of the largest being a lack of amendments that can effectively serve as plant nutrients or pest controls and still be considered organic ...

"Compost tea" is a liquid concentrate made by steeping compost in water,which infuses water with microorganisms and nutrients. Compost is a wonder for your garden and yard, and compost tea offers the ...

Q: What is a good recipe for compost tea? What is the best ways to use it? Answer: Compost tea is a liquid extract of compost that contains plant growth compounds and beneficial microorganisms. It is ...

Compost is a great way to recycle kitchen and garden scraps. It takes organic waste and turns it into nutrient-rich humus that can be used by plants. Composting is a way of returning to the soil what ...

Learn how to use coffee grounds, tea leaves, and kitchen waste to naturally grow healthier plants! Find simple DIY techniques ...

Compost tea is nothing more than a large “tea bag” filled with finished compost steeped in water. This colorful compost is ready to be tucked into a bag (a pillowcase will work) to soak in water.

This week, after a long spring of unseasonal and unpredictable weather events, our garden was treated to a much-needed spa day. We treated the entire property to a good foliar spray drenching of ...

Compost tea is a concentrated blast of nutrients for plants and soil. You can make it at home for free. Pat, a retired science teacher and experienced gardener, showed me how it’s done at her Mukilteo ...

• The Master Composter and Recycler Program is sponsored by the Spokane County Regional Solid Waste System. Contact them through the Recycling Hotline at (509) 477 ...

Q: I've seen a couple of compost tea-brewing kits in catalogs. They're supposed to give you a really nutritious organic fertilizer that you make at home. What do you think of them? A: I don't have any ...