Composting first got popular among home gardeners in the 1970s, but it has seen a resurgence in the last decade or so. "As people are becoming more educated about food waste, they're realizing that ...

When it comes to gardening having the right soil makes the difference between a good growing season or a bad one. I have found the addition of mushroom compost makes all the difference for our ...

There is a difference between mulching and amending the soil. Mulching involves placing a material such as pine straw, leaves or pine bark on top of the soil. Amending the soil implies the ...

Mushroom compost is soil that is left over after mushroom farming has been done. It has a high organic matter content of between 40 to 60 per cent on a dry weight basis. It contains chalk and is ...

My question is about using leaf compost, spent mushroom soil, neither or both. How do they compare in composition? What are the advantages and disadvantages of both? I made a new bed this year, and I ...

Mushroom soil is the substrata used in commercial mushroom growing. It is sold after the mushroom crop is harvested. Mushroom soil can contain a variety of materials and varies from lot to lot. It is ...

Every gardener wants the best soil for their garden. How do you know if your soil is "good"? What do you add to make it good? When you go to a plant nursery or the gardening section of a big box store ...

Most gardeners in southern Ohio struggle with hard clay soil, making it difficult to grow nice vegetables. Conventional fertilizers like 10-10-10 make the problem worse, doing nothing to build healthy ...

My grandmother’s vegetable garden had the most wonderful rich, dark, crumbly soil I’ve ever seen. A powered tiller would have been a luxury in her world. Instead she set me to work “spading” it; ...