Watering a snake plant with a green watering can - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Snake plants (Dracaena trifasciata) are one of the most common houseplants for a reason: No matter how "green" your thumb is, ...

Do you fertilize your houseplants regularly? It’s one of the best ways to keep them healthy and thriving. But many store-bought fertilizers are full of chemicals, which isn’t ideal if you have kids, ...

Add composted leaf litter to your garden crops. Wondering what to do with raked leaves? Turn it into composted leaf litter, or leaf matter, and read on to see how one small farm put this natural ...

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Turning leftover pumpkins into fertilizer gives your garden a natural nutrient boost while keeping food waste out of landfills. Pumpkin scraps release vitamins and minerals like potassium, phosphorus, ...

Comfrey, until fairly recently, was used for centuries as a medicinal herb. Some of the common folk names for it, such as “healing herb” and “bruisewort,” reflect the healing properties that people ...

You may have noticed some of your plants’ leaves turning a light green or even yellow after our recent rains. This may be because high rainfall tends to wash nutrients out of the soil. Your plants ...

Though natural fertilizers made from treated sewage sludge are used to reintroduce nutrients onto agricultural fields, they bring along microplastic pollutants too. And according to a small-scale ...

Many fertilizers contain ingredients that can harm birds' health. Here's how to pick a bird-safe fertilizer and apply it for ...