Bill Kerr says that increasing the organic and microbe content of your soil is the first step to ensuring healthier crops and ...

The compost adds nutrients and carbon to your soil, improves the humus levels and so helps your soil retain nutrients. If you put weed seeds in or perennial weed roots on, the temperatures in a ...

For clay, it can be a game-changer. Organic matter is basically anything that decomposes and adds humus to your soil. Compost, animal manures, peat, lawn clippings, straw, wood chips, cardboard, leaf ...

Nera Leather Tanning asks…….What is the difference between ‘biodegrading’ and ‘composting’? The first difference is that composting provides the Earth with nutrients once the material has ...

Q: How do I overwinter an outdoor water garden in a trough? It has with two water lilies, King Tut grass, goldfish and an ...

When you've got an outdoor space, people can sometimes overlook it. Fortunately, this easy-to-maintain plant is ideal for protection.