If you have leaves accumulating on your lawn and in the garden, instead of raking them up into piles and putting them in bags ...

Regardless of your soil type, improving soil health means increasing its ability to hold water and nutrients and provide ...

Composting is an affordable and easy way to deliver much-needed nutrients to your garden beds, borders and potted plants while reducing garden and household waste. Many pre-made compost products ...

Finished compost should smell earthy. If you have very little space, you could simply bury kitchen scraps in the garden and they will break down within a week or two.

More specifically, if you make compost, you need to put some measures in place to stop compost freezing in winter. Failing to ...

1 Help your children to set up the compost bin or site, ensuring the bin is placed on earth and not concrete. 2 Fill the bin with dead leaves, green waste from the garden, old plants you've pulled ...

Compost heaps can be designed to suit gardens of all sizes. You can build your own or choose from a whole range of specially designed bins, available at garden centres and through internet and ...

Composting has several benefits for your garden and the wider environment, but it is a gardening habit that can attract pests. A long list of compostable ingredients can prevent unwanted visitors ...

The answer is to recycle as many of them as possible to create Leafmould, which over time decomposes to create mulch and compost. The recycling of fallen leaves for using in our garden pots and ...

Green materials have generous amounts of nitrogen with less carbon, and include coffee grounds, garden prunings, grass clippings, manures and vegetable scraps from the kitchen. They will compost ...

For the past five years Which? Gardening has only used peat-free compost for all our growing needs at our trials site, so we know it's entirely possible to grow a wide range of plants without peat.

Cleaning gutters and garden tools and covering compost and important December tasks to keep your garden healthy and tidy.