Composting

Articles tagged with Composting

Dark, crumbly compost made from decomposed autumn leaves

I stopped raking my leaves to the curb, and my soil has never been better

For years I bagged every autumn leaf and set them out with the trash. Then I learned what those leaves turn into if you just pile them up and wait. Now I take my neighbors' bags too.

Bags of grass clippings set at the curb for pickup

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The free thing my neighbor throws away that became my best fertilizer

My neighbor sets the same bags at the curb every week. I never asked what was in them. When my tomatoes started struggling, one quick conversation changed how I feed my garden.