Hello! Once the ground has dried this spring, can I mix the leaf coverage of my garden with manure to enrich my soil, or should I clear all the leaf coverage that I left down from last fall before amending…
If your compost pile has thawed by the beginning of the month, now’s the time to give it a good stirring.At the end of the month, when the weather has improved and the garden is dry enough to work in, …
Continue to add vegetable scraps and other compostable household waste to your compost pile throughout the winter. To keep your ‘greens and browns’ in balance, cover your kitchen waste periodically with leaves that you have saved or shredded newspaper. Decomposition…
can you safely compost leaves from infected hazelnut trees that have the eastern filbert blight – the fungus that grow like black raised bumps on the limbs of the tree?…
What is involved in making compost beside unwanted plant material. I have a plastic bin provided by Toronto city years ago and I do get almost like soil at the bottom that I can remove but I wondered if the…
I have two bags if compost that u picked up at a city environment day last fall Recently someone e told me that city compost is contaminated with garlic mustard. Do you have any knowledge and advice about this? Hesitant…
How beneficial is it in a garden. In my area, someone is selling a 10 lb. bag for $10. How much does one use – I have a large garden. The seller calls it worm compost but I thought it…
We live in Scarborough, zone 5. We are trying to prepare to plant 16 emerald cedar trees (4-5 feet in height) in our backyard facing west. We have ordered some bulk ‘triple mix’ but we think that they might have…
For several years now I have been adding turkey litter compost to my garden in the early spring. Can I add the same compost to my garden in the fall (i.e., now?) And do I need to then add some…
Hello Master Gardener Friends ~
I would like to add composted manure to my gardens which are already full of plant roots and tree roots, which make digging next to impossible. A recent Toronto Star article recommended digging the manure…
