Winter composting can feel like watching paint dry, except the paint is frozen and the “dry” part is literal. Cold slows microbes, your pile shrinks less, and kitchen scraps seem to sit there forever.

Composting doesn't stop when temperatures drop. While many gardeners cover their piles in fall and forget about them until spring, winter composting actively breaks down organic matter and produces ...

Winter can feel like a slow, gray pause in the garden, but this is actually the perfect time to get ahead. While the frost glazes the lawn and the soil is stiff with cold, gardeners who plan carefully ...

As pretty as a snowfall can be, cold weather has a way of making your garden or yard look tired and in need of a reset. Garden beds filled with dead plants can look and feel cluttered and unkempt once ...

IN THIS WEEK’S GREEN WE ARE AT BEDFORD FIELDS. I’M WITH SEAN O’BRIEN WITH UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION. SEAN, WE’RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT COMPOSTING TODAY. AND IT’S THE WINTER. IT’S COLD. IT’S SNOWY. CAN I ...

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather’s compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre high and hidden behind a privet hedge. We had placed ...

Forgotten bags of compost in your shed after winter? Learn how to check, revive and safely reuse last year’s mix without sacrificing spring growth.