By Amber Veverka Spring gardening season is just weeks away and it’s time to think about boosting your soil’s fertility to get the best potatoes, pansies, snap peas and more. If you’re still tossing lettuce leaves, carrot peelings and eggshells into the garbage and hauling leaves to the curb in bags, why not turn all [...]
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Build a quick and easy compost pile
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged composting, gardening on January 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Rats!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged composting on November 6, 2010 | Comments Off
Backyard & Beyond: Exploring your own patch of green in the Carolinas Q. A Charlotte kindergarten teacher was getting ready for her students’ first day last year when she spied something sneaking through the school garden. “I saw a rat running into the compost. I screamed!” writes the teacher. She hasn’t seen any rats since, but we [...]
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