Five-Gallon Bucket Composting Guide – Steps for Success

Composting is a sustainable and eco-friendly practice that is not only beneficial to your garden but also helps reduce landfill waste. One efficient solution for small-scale composting at home is the use of a five-gallon bucket. This compact composting system is easy to maintain, making it an excellent choice for beginners and those with minimal …

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How to Make Leaf Mold Compost Fast

Every fall trees such as Oak, Maple, Sycamores, and many others drop their leaves in preparation for the winter season. In nature, leaves provide important ecological services by protecting and nourishing the soils in which trees live. In urban settings they often cause a nuisance, covering lawns, patios, driveways, and any surface you can think …

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How To Amend Your Soil’s pH with Compost (Easiest Method)

Let’s be serious for a second, soil pH isn’t that important for the average gardener. Unless you have something very wrong with your soil pH and you’re trying to diagnose an issue, you probably don’t need to test it. But you probably already know that. You want to test your soil’s pH because you’re an …

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Compost vs Fertilizer – 6 Key Differences & When To Use Each

Nourishing your plants is an essential part of gardening and plant care. Properly nourished plants grow faster, greener, and provide a more optimal yield than those lacking essential nutrients. For this reason gardeners, farmers, and all types of plant lovers use compost or fertilizers to keep their plants healthy. But what exactly is the difference …

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Is Composting Hard? Well, not if you do these 4 things…

Is composting hard? Yes, if you want it to be. Getting started with composting was a major leap for me. For some reason, I had built it up in my head to the point that I didn’t make the jump…for years. I always thought that I needed a tumbler, a three-bin pile, an aerating system, …

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21 Best Carbon Sources for Composting: Complete Browns List

Everything breaks down eventually. Whether it’s a pile of dead leaves that is gone in a year or two or a plastic water bottle that takes 450 years, eventually it will all return to the soil. Composting attempts to do two things: make things return to the soil as fast as possible and make sure …

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Ericaceous Compost – How To Make & Use It In Your Garden

Ever wondered what the secret is behind successfully growing Ericaceae plants? Well, if you’ve tried and failed, you’ll be happy to hear that it probably isn’t your fault. In fact, the likelihood of you having soil suitable for Ericaceae plants is highly improbable. This is because most of the world’s distribution of soil isn’t acidic. …

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