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Composting Q and A Starting a Compost Pile... Critters in Compost...Foul-Smelling Compost Pile... Adding Compost to a Perennial Garden... Speeding Decomposition... Planting Directly in Compost... Compost Quantity...Compost vs. Mulch... Materials to Compost... Sawdust in Compost Pile... |
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What's Your Composting Personality? Take our quiz ... become a better composter |
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Compost Haste Turn food and lawn scraps into garden nourishment. |
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Compost 101 One of the best natural fertilizers and soil builders is available free. You make it yourself and solve some environmental problems at the same time. |
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Turn Leaves into Gold These golden leaves can be turned into "black gold" for the garden. They make great soil-enriching compost or a protective mulch. |
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May Is for Mulching Decorate and protect your beds now, before the heat of summer sets in. |
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Power Equipment 101 Whatever the lawn and garden task, turn the job into fun. |
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Mulching Trees and Shrubs Why mulch? Because it helps minimize weeds, conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and make your yard look good. |
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Stop Burning Backyard Brush: Analysis There are better ways to tidy up your yard than burning piles of innocuous sticks and plant matter. Follow these tips to deal with brush in a safe, easy and eco- and neighbor-friendly manner. |
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Green Acres How to break your lawn's addition to synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. |
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Shopper's Guide to Bark Mulch The advantages of using organic mulch to blanket soil around trees, shrubs, and perennial plants are many. This article explores the kinds of bark mulches you can buy and their advantages and disadvantages. |
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NatureMill Automatic Indoor Composter Turns Human Food into Plant Food Compost keeps food waste out of landfills while enriching garden topsoil -- but producing it at home can be a dirty job |
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Humanity in the Garbage Heap A collection of photographs offer unsettling portraits of people who make a living by scavenging refuse in Central America. |
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Fall Yard Chores Cleaning up your yard before winter blows in. |
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Lawns 101 Much has been said about whether or not Americans should rethink their passion for the home lawn. If you determine that a grass lawn makes sense for your yard, planting the right variety of grass at the right time of year will go a long way in making yours a healthy, easy-care lawn. |
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Worm Bins Get step-by-step directions on how to build this gardening asset. |
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Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops. |
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Building Soil 101 A steady program of soil building is like a steady program of physical conditioning. You'll get great results in the long run if you stick with it and don't go overboard right away. |
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Making Compost Compost improves soil texture by increasing the drainage of heavy clay soils and the water and nutrient retention of light, sandy soils. Here's what you'll need to get your compost started. |
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Rising Star Buy: Waste Management This seemingly dirty business hides amazing, innovative green potential. |
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The Crisis That Wasn't In their 1992 book Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage, William Rathje and Cullen Murphy noted the historical forces that drive cultures to be more efficient in dealing with garbage, predicting today's waste disposal efficiency. |
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Improve Soil Fertility with Compost A little soil common sense will go a long way to helping you understand how to care for your garden. All soils are not the same; they differ in many ways, including texture, fertility, and pH. |
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Trench Planting Your Root Crops A quick way to improve soil for root crops... |
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Consider Some Trash for Your Portfolio Trash collector Waste Management shines, posting a 44% rise in Q3 earnings. |
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Competitor Comparison: Which Waste Management Companies Are a Buy? The Motley Fool community of investors likes Waste Management, a company with a huge moat, nice dividend, and virtually no potential for competitors. |
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Green Pastures Not all lawns that are in bad shape need to be replaced. A well-executed restoration plan can bring all but the worst turf back to life. |
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The Tomato-Vetch Connection A USDA-devised mulch system is revolutionizing tomato farming... |
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The Trail Boss's Guide to Leaf-Cleaning at Home We came up with advice from real trail bosses about the best ways to clean up leaves from yards and roofs and where to put them. |
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Spring Is Here -- Where Do I Start? April's the time to head outdoors for the annual landscape cleanup. |
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June 5, 2008 |
5 Steps to Grow & Build a Perfect Lawn -- With Free Time to Spare Each spring, millions of homeowners spend too much of their cherished weekends trying to maintain a lush, green lawn. But sun and rain also bring lawn-choking weeds and voracious bugs. Here are five tips to keep you lawn healthy. |
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Mowing and Trimming a Lawn Improve your lawn's health and appearance, reduce its need for water, and lessen your maintenance time. |
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5 Steps to Quick Compost Use this "hot" method to get garden-ready black gold in just two weeks |
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Organic Fertilizers 101 Most soils benefit from the addition of fertilizer. Benefits to using organic fertilizers instead of synthetic fertilizers include fewer applications. |
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The convergence of organic and green Another reason to reformulate for organics: environmental responsibility. |
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Recycling Myths: PM Debunks 5 Half Truths about Recycling The dominant factor in virtually every case is the enormous amount of energy required to turn raw materials into metals and plastics compared to the energy needed to reprocess products that already exist. |
