While compost is commonly used in vegetable, flower, and herb gardens, home gardeners often overlook the many benefits that compost brings to lawns. Using compost for lawns is an excellent way to both ...

Close up of green lawn on a sunny day, with the blue sky, white clouds, and housing structures in the background. - Sachko/Getty Images Dreaming of having that rich, carpet-like lawn you see in home ...

CORVALLIS — As leaves fall and yard debris bins fill up, it’s a great time to consider composting instead of hauling away those valuable resources. Compost is one of the best ways to build healthy ...

If your compost heap, like mine, is a bit of a mess, now is a good time to sort it out for 2026. Aim for a good mix of woody ...

If you’ve been thinking about recycling all of that yard waste into compost, now’s the time to get busy. You’ll have plenty of prime ingredients coming up shortly in the form of falling leaves, ...

Fallen branches. Pizza boxes. Bomb cyclone cleanup. The remains of a large dinner. What do they all have in common? They go in your compost bin. Compost is organic food and yard waste that’s collected ...

In this video, I experimented by composting several organic materials simultaneously to see how long it takes to break down hardwood woodchips in a tumbler composter to make humus compost for the ...