Chicken manure, often called "black gold," provides one of the most nutrient-rich boosts for your soil. Different types of chicken manure exist, with variations in quality and composition. You can ...

A rake scooping horse manure into a wheelbarrow - Maho/Getty Images Animal manure remains one of the best amendments you can make to your soil, but there are important mistakes to avoid when using ...

What is a green manure? What are the advantages of using a green manure? How to make a green manure fertiliser? I answer ...

Best practices in gardening can change over the years. Martha Foley and cooperative extension horticulturist Amy Ivy talk about new wisdom on the... Apr 08, 2013 — Best practices in gardening can ...

If you feel strongly about eating your own home-grown, organic vegetables, and want to improve your garden soil, you need to learn how to make organic compost at home. For most gardeners, the ...

It's not too often that the general public calls our extension office with questions about organisms for which they know the scientific, Latin name. However, everybody seems to know about Escherichia ...