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The Impatient Farmer
  • Outdoor Power Tools
    • The Best Rear Tine Tillers
    • The Best Front Tine Rototillers & Reviews
    • Best Electric Hedge Trimmers
    • Pole Saw Reviews
    • Best Leaf Mulcher and Shredders
    • Best Cordless Cultivators for a Small Garden
    • Using Tillers & Cultivators in the Garden
    • The 5 Best Electric String Trimmers
      • Replacement String Trimmer Line
  • Gardening
    • Vegetable Gardening
    • Composting and Mulch
    • Lawncare
  • Small Farms
    • Farm Photos

Composting and Mulch

How to make your own compost, using compost tumblers, and finding the best compost bins. Also included is worm composting and how to raise worms for your garden.

How To Make Leaf Mulch: Turn Leaf Litter into Organic Mulch

raking fall leaves to make mulch

Using fallen leaves as mulch in your garden is one of the best ways to improve your soil. But how do you make leaf mulch? And is leaf mulch the same thing as leaf litter …

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How To Build a Worm Farm For the Garden in 10 Easy Steps

Wooden worm bin sign on white picket fence surrounding a vermicomposting pile

Are you looking for an easy, low-maintenance, inexpensive way to compost your garden? What could be better than setting up your own composting system with a worm farm in your backyard? What is a Worm …

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How to Choose the Best Mulch for Your Garden

Collage of three types of mulch - bark, leaves and straw

Why choose mulch? Simply put, mulch helps conserve moisture in the soil, control weeds, prevent erosion, add organic material, and it looks better than plain dirt. To top it off, studies have shown that a …

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How to Make Compost for the Garden in 5 Easy Steps

Woman added kitchen refuse and vegetable scraps to a compost pile

Back in the day when most people lived on farms, keeping a compost pile for the garden was commonplace. But in current times, not everybody has a cow or chicken in their backyard or acres …

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