You would expect to find bees in flowers, gardens where they are sweet-tasting plants and generally around anything sweet. The last place most gardeners would expect to find bees is in their compost bin. While...
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Are WORMS Good for Compost and Gardens?
Worms, as slimy as they are, have always been regarded as an important part of every garden. Worms facilitate decomposition of organic matte r nd they help to aerate the soil. The organisms are a free farm help mostly...
What is the difference between Vermicompost and Compost?
A lot of people often assume that composting and vermicomposting mean the same thing. When I started gardening, I also found it difficult to differentiate between both terms. Since both processes involve the bio...
How to build your own COMPOST Bin?
Composting is one of the most interesting parts of gardening – if you’re doing it right. Many gardeners prefer to heap their compost into a bare-earth pile on a random, sun-lit corner of their garden. While it’s quite...
Can you COMPOST tea bags?
As more people are becoming environmentally conscious and embracing composting as an effective alternative to disposing of waste in landfills, questions that were previously overlooked are now being brought to the...
There is Fungus in my COMPOST! (Is it BAD?)
While there are harmful and harmless types of fungi, if they can be seen by the human eye, they’ve all got one thing in common: they are cringe-worthy disgusting. Seeing fungus in your compost pile may cause you...