(Denise Heubach is an Extension Agents with the Baldwin County Extension Office. Contact her at [email protected] or call 251-937-7176) What's brewing in your backyard? Why...compost tea of course! For ...

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 ...

Four thousand years ago the Egyptians were making compost tea which simply extracts nutrients from compost and puts it in a liquid form. This method is easier to apply to the soil and the plants. A ...

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 ...

My grandad, like most men of his generation, enjoyed a good cup of tea, and so did his garden - but his vegetables enjoyed a very different brew. At any time in his garden he would be making compost ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Paul Gilligan talks about the compost tea he is making at Lanoha Nurseries, 19111 W. Center Road. Paul Gilligan holds compost he ...

If you feel strongly about eating your own home-grown, organic vegetables, and want to improve your garden soil, you need to learn how to make organic compost at home. For most gardeners, the ...

Growing up in the 1950s, I helped my grandfather in his garden. He was a believer in organic gardening long before it became popular. By the age of 5, I was responsible for the daily stirring of a ...

San Antonio – The City of San Antonio’s Solid Waste Management Department is making a big push to get residents to feed their green bins more scraps, leftover fruits and vegetables and old newspapers.

Nourished only by straw, leaves, compost and frequent apologies – yielded healthy and delicious tubers nonetheless ...

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 ...