Yes, it's true. A splash of rice water is a well-kept gardening secret that can help you produce your most bountiful and ...

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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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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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Of all the elements that make up Earth's atmosphere, nitrogen is by far the most abundant ...