Add minerals, compost, and mulch now and you'll have super-fertile soil come spring. As the busy garden season wraps up, there's one last—but very important—task to tend to: Feeding your soil.

As the year comes to an end, find out what gardening jobs still to be tackled for the "winter wind down." Fhese 5 steps will ...

Did you know the microbes in your compost pile is still active in the dead of winter? They will be if you take certain steps to get ready for cold weather.

A shovel full of compost about to be added to a raised garden - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock So many different types of kitchen scraps can be reused in your garden as a natural fertilizer, and ...

Before the first hard frost, pick any remaining vegetables and herbs. Some crops like kale, carrots, and Brussels sprouts can ...

It’s easy to compost your fallen leaves and easier still to keep them in your garden beds, where they’ll enrich the soil and ...

In simple terms, compost is the product of controlled biological decomposition of organic material in an oxygenated (aerobic) ...