About 30% to 40% of the food supply in the United States is wasted. In most cases, this statistic refers to food being tossed out after it gets moldy or shrivels due to age and improper maintenance.

A leek doesn’t have a bulb or hollow leaves like an onion. Instead, it has encircling blue-green leaves that form the stalk at its base and branch outward at the top. Leeks can be raised from ...

Use a Best Buy compost for sowing seeds. If you sow in a seed tray, prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they're large enough to handle, using a Best Buy compost for raising young plants.