5 ways to improve your garden this week, June 1-6

1. Compost with the most
If you are able, start a compost pile for mulch to use in your garden and flowerbeds – there’s nothing better than homemade compost to enrich the soil or grow container plants or mulch your plants – and keep down weeds. Use grass clippings, leaves, shredded paper and newspaper, fruit and vegetable debris, coffee grounds and just about anything organic except meats and feces from meat-eating animals. Chopped items compost faster than bulky ones, and in h