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Make One Simple Addition To Your Soil In October For A Thriving Garden Next Spring

The fall is the perfect time to prepare for a beautiful spring garden. Here's one thing that you can add to your soil to ...
Oregonian

Yes, adding compost improves soil; here’s how to get the right mix for vegetables and lawns

CORVALLIS – Adding organic matter is the best way to improve nearly all kinds of soils. If you’re unsure if your soil needs amendments, take note if it dries and cracks in summer, drains slowly or is ...
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The Exact Amount Of Compost Your Soil Needs (And Why It Matters)

A mound of compost with a hoe sticking out and a gardener's boots in the background - Annick Vanderschelden Photography/Getty Images So you've got your compost ready for the next gardening season.
Columbus Dispatch

Gardening: Compost can help improve soil by adding organic matter

There are many benefits of using compost in your garden, planting beds, and your lawn, and fall can be the perfect time to start a compost pile while you are cleaning up the garden and removing leaves ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal

Ariel Whitely-Noll: Compost returns nutrients to the soil. Here are some ways to use it.

Compost is a great way to recycle kitchen and garden scraps. It takes organic waste and turns it into nutrient-rich humus that can be used by plants. Composting is a way of returning to the soil what ...
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Using Compost for Lawns Is the Secret to Greener Grass (Plus 7 Application Tips)

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 ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Using Compost vs. Mulch in Your Garden

COMPOST: Technically speaking, compost is organic matter that has decomposed. The easiest way to make compost is to pile up garden refuse (plus kitchen vegetable and fruit scraps if you’re inclined) ...
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Composting reduces waste, improves soil

FARGO-In the corner of a backyard, egg shells, dead leaves, grass clippings and apple peels undergo a slow, invisible transformation. Air, heat and water aid millions of microorganisms in their ...
AG Week

Humus compost manure system gets carbon into the soil, cuts fertilizer use

TORONTO, S.D. — A custom feedlot near the South Dakota-Minnesota border is fast becoming an innovator in turning bedded pack manure into a value-added soil additive — “humus compost.” Owners Chad and ...

Davenport Compost Facility celebrates 30 years of operation

The compost facility in Davenport is marking 30 years of operation, recycling yard waste and biosolids into compost, soil and ...
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The Exact Amount Of Compost Your Soil Needs (And Why It Matters)

So you've got your compost ready for the next gardening season. Maybe you even learned how to make your own DIY compost. But how much compost does your garden soil really need? Composting is one of ...