Frequent mowing keeps clippings small, which prevents lawn smothering and speeds up decomposition for easier reuse. Use clippings in compost or mulch to enrich soil without risking weed spread.

The final compost product is divided into four grades, Soilbuilder — five-eights of an inch for soil amendment; BioFine — three-eights of an inch particle size for top dressing; ReadyGrow — a blend of ...

There are many benefits of using compost in your garden, planting beds, and your lawn, and fall can be the perfect time to start a compost pile while you are cleaning up the garden and removing leaves ...

Lawn trimmings, eggshells, old vegetables and shredded newspaper. Put it all together, and what do you get? Some call it garbage. Others call it black gold, the best fertilizer there is for lawns and ...

Many landscape plants can benefit greatly from amended soil. Our native sandy soil drains readily and doesn’t do so well with holding on to soil nutrients and water. But you can produce your own ...

Much of the trash that we throw away can be used to make our gardens more productive. A great New Year’s resolution is to begin to covert yard and kitchen debris into soil-enriching compost. Many ...

This article will focus on the seventh Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ principle, recycle yard waste. Incorporating this principle in your gardening efforts will provide many benefits. Recycling the ...

What if you could save money, grow a wildly productive garden, use less water and cut back on adding waste to the landfill — all while nature does most of the heavy lifting? Those are just some of the ...

SUMMERVILLE — Kate Pezzillo started thinking seriously about her trash in graduate school. After studying federal data on American garbage streams as she completed work to become an environmental ...

Adding kitchen waste, yard debris and grass clippings will enhance the process. The trick for rapid composting is to use a ...

Adding kitchen waste, yard debris and grass clippings will enhance the process. The trick for rapid composting is to use a mix of fresh greens (grass clippings, weeds, kitchen scraps) and browns (fall ...