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As we can all agree, the more untamed a garden is, the better it is. Untamed gardens get a crummy rap from cable TV gardening shows and from HOA's, but I'll take a huge, rambling garden over a ...

Allow me to isolate and elaborate on my favorite part of the indoor composting process. Inside my house, the shredder is the equivalent of the compost bin outdoors, based on how much it is put to work ...

A reader at frugal finance blog Get Rich Slowly suggests shredding your junk mail and using it to mulch your garden. To avoid killing your garden with inks and metals leeching off the shredded paper, ...