So when it comes to mulch and compost, all you seasoned gardeners out there know a thing or two. But what’s that white stuff on mulch? Yes, that odd, spongy mass of white spores is actually a ...

After just a week or two, a mop of bladderwrack still holds the same shape, like a memory of itself, but has turned white with actinomycetes ... For Walt Whitman, ‘this compost’ was simultaneously ...