It takes two to three weeks for a properly maintained 2-foot pile of leaves to turn into a bucket full of black, crumbly, sweet-smelling compost. Connie Gannon Fresno Bee archive Many gardeners are ...

Turn your kitchen scraps into garden gold in minutes, no compost bin required. Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to ...

The best compost bins can handle everything from your morning coffee and eggs, to the veggie stir fry you had for dinner and any additional scraps, peels and grounds over the course of a day.

Reduce your food waste and turn meal scraps into a soil amendment for your plants with the help of these nifty composting ...

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Most gardeners know food scraps contain nutrients that can be used to improve garden soils. The most common way of handling kitchen scraps is adding them to a traditional compost pile, but a less well ...

Using a compost heap is a great way of putting food waste to use, but that waste can take several weeks or longer to become compost – in the meantime, it may stink or attract pests. The indoor Kalea ...

Want to take the garbage out once or twice a month instead of every few days? A smart food recycler is your secret weapon for a greener kitchen. Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in ...

Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to make large batches. Pour blender compost around plants, or into trenches, compost ...