Compost has a long list of benefits for garden soil, but adding too much is detrimental to both plant health and the ...

Compost and manure are some of the best things you can add to the soil in your vegetable garden. Adding them provides both organic matter and nutrients to the soil.

Manure consists of fecal material and urine, and it is a complex mix of nitrogen and protein compounds, minerals, bile products, undigested feed stuff, starch, dietary fiber and a microbial mass.

Compost manure is rotten animal waste and plant. Composting helps to produce organic fertilizer high in plant nutrients, which improves soil performance as one manages organic waste in the farm.

Poultry manure — or any manure — is also high in nitrogen and will heat up a pile if mixed in. Compost thermometers, which look like meat thermometers with a longer probe, are sold at garden ...

There is a wonderful product to give your plants a growing boost. It takes time to work—about two to three months—but it ...

For others, manure or compost is the answer to increasing soil productivity and plant health. And then there are bagged minerals, organic bagged fertilizers, rock powders and more.

First, look for a potting soil mix, not compost, manure or mulch. These should be used as additives for the garden but not as a potting soil.