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I'm so excited about my new livestock! I really didn't think my husband would go for a worm farm in the basement, but luckily he's a fisherman. This way I'll have wonderful worm castings first thing in the spring for asparagus, strawberries, and transplants, and he won't have to buy fishing...

I can get tons of shredded office paper to mix in my compost. Is the ink toxic, or are there other problems with it? What about composting things like cereal boxes that have that shiny cardboard on the outside?

I have some old wheat straw in the barn. I don't think it has any seed heads still in it. I apologize ahead of time if this is a dumb question. How should I best use the straw? Mixed with the compost pile...for walkways between raised rows...layered between compost in raised rows...mulch...

The plan for the garden this year (after a lackluster year last year) is to take sort of a square foot gardening/ lasagna gardening approach by building up the soil rather than tilling it. I wish I would have thought of it in the fall so I could have started it then...but there ya go:/. I...

I was concerned that turning the compost in winter wouldn't be good for it. Will it still heat up if turned. It's made mostly of dry horse manure with some bedding in it. The whole thing was pretty powdery when I made the pile a couple of days ago. Its in a roofed over run-in shed so I've...

Hello, I'm new here and have a very newbie question. How do I find out when my last frost date is? Pretty sure I'm in zone 5b. I'm so excited about this year's garden and want it to turn out well...unlike last year's garden:/.