SAN ANTONIO – The soil you use in your garden is important because it adds nutrients to your plants. You can save money and help out the environment at the same time by making your own compost soil.

I've been using shipping pallets as a compost bin for a few years now and they work great. A compost pile, in my humble opinion, should be a minimum of a cubic yard in order to jump start the heat and ...

1. Level a 4”² by 14”² space with a rake and shovel, and stand up two pallets (with the thicker stringer pieces parallel to the ground) to create a 90-degree, L-shaped angle. 2. Nail the pallets ...

Description: In this video, I explain what we do when we run out of our own homemade compost. I also show our composting bay ...

You can build a freestanding compost pile or create an aerated compost enclosure using chicken wire, snow fence, wooden pallets, or lumber. Using these systems, you need to maintain enough heat in the ...

Composting is an affordable and easy way to deliver much-needed nutrients to your garden beds, borders and potted plants ...

Sure, you can put yard waste out with the trash or recycle pine needles, pine cones and branches at community recycling programs. But why not put garden debris to work in your yard? Rotted garden ...