No-till gardening: Gardeners are divided over the need to till. Tilling — mixing in soil amendments and loosening the ground with a garden fork or a rototiller — is an established method for starting ...

“Be ye not afraid of doing something your venerable ancestors did, for the benefits to your aching back may be many” (Author anonymous) We all know that gardening involves a lot of hard work: hoeing, ...

What’s your gardening style? The way we garden can determine whether we are increasing or decreasing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Carbon has been on my mind lately following the release of ...

In the wild areas on our planet, trees, bushes and grasses grow on ground that has continual additions of new layers of dead and dying plant matter. Leaves fall from trees and shrubs, grasses dry in ...

If planning to put in a new garden next spring, you might not need to wait until spring. Consider starting site preparation now with a no-till option. Research shows that tillage damages soil ...

There are two vegetable gardens behind our house. The main one is tilled up every year with a tractor and laid out in 30-inch-wide beds. The smaller one has the same layout but is managed with a ...

What do the no-till garden, sheet composting and lasagna gardening have in common? They are the same thing with different names. I had read about people not tilling their soil when preparing new ...

There are two vegetable gardens behind our house. The main one is tilled up every year with a tractor and laid out in 30-inch-wide beds. The smaller one has the same layout but is managed with a ...

There are two vegetable gardens behind our house. The main one is tilled up every year with a tractor and laid out in 30-inch-wide beds. The smaller one has the same layout but is managed with a ...

In the wild areas on our planet, trees, bushes, and grasses grow on ground that has continual additions of new layers of dead and dying plant matter. Leaves fall from trees and shrubs, grasses dry in ...