If you’ve been neglecting your compost bins all winter long, now is the time to get busy and get those bins ready for the spring planting season!

• Turn over a new leaf, and a few heaps, with regular compost mixing sessions. Get out that pitchfork and toss your compost to increase aeration and decomposition.  Read more...

Worm bins are a great source of everlasting, rich fertilizer for your greenhouse or outdoor garden. They are an excellent source of liquid fertilizer (in the form of worm tea, or the moisture that drains from the worm bins) and castings, which are the nutrient-rich waste droppings of red worms. This worm fertilizer is equal to liquid gold in the greenhouse.
Worm bins are also an easy way to help recycle food waste and some common household and yard scraps. Dried leaves, dead flowers, grass clippings, shredded newspaper, cardboard, and food waste are all excellent food sources and bedding materials for red worms.  Read more...

Those quirky upside down tomato planters you see on TV and in stores seem like lots of fun. Hanging planters are easy to transport indoors during an early frost and they help save space in the greenhouse or outdoor garden for other space-hogging plants. However, that price tag turns many thrifty, do-it-yourself gardeners away. But, if you’re intrigued by the concept and want to try it out in your own greenhouse garden, you can make your own Upside Down Tomato Planters!  Read more...