Tag: compost

Healthy compost smells like a forest floor. If yours doesn't, the type of smell tells you exactly what went wrong and what to add.

Nov 2 · 4 min

Clay will always be clay, but it can become far easier to garden. The fix is steady organic matter and good timing, not a truckload of sand.

Nov 2 · 5 min

The bags look alike, but they do very different jobs. Here is what each product is, what to buy for your project and how to judge quality.

Nov 2 · 5 min

If your pile looks the same as it did two months ago, the microbes are missing something. Here is how to work out what, and how to restart it.

Nov 2 · 5 min