Well, duh. Common sense recommends that too. I compost my leaves every year and by the end of summer I have a wonderful pile of nutrient-rich dirt to add to my raised beds. Folks, that is free (and environmentally friendly) fertilizer you’re missing out on when you burn leaves.
Anyway, leaves will be [...]

State Senator Patty Birkholz has introduced a bill that will bring yard waste back into state landfills 13 years after yard waste was banned. She claims it will help create methane (quicker than current garbage residing in landfills) which can be harnessed for power.
Since we still see fit to import trash from Canada I [...]

I have just completed two new web pages (they call them ‘lenses’ at Squidoo) at Squidoo with a gardening theme. Follow my step-by-step instructions to build your own raised bed garden at www.squidoo.com/Raised-Bed-Gardens/. I have created a companion eBook as a PDF that you can download here (right-click and then choose ’save as’).
At [...]