How much time and effort do you spend on your garden’s foundation? The soil is your plants’ nutrient source, and it can have a massive effect on your backyard crop haul. With this in mind, many ...

Tilling has both benefits and drawbacks when it comes to your soil. So should you till or not when preparing and maintaining your garden? That decision depends on several factors, and no one answer ...

"It’s so cute!" Gardener shares ancient technique to prepare garden for changing seasons: 'Keep pushing on your ... journey' ...

A volunteer with AmeriCorps tills the garden at Sisters of the Holy Family on Thursday, August 2, 2012. Several volunteers till and grow vegetables for the Sisters. (David Grunfeld, NOLA.com|The Times ...

Not only does it kill everything in the soil it ruins the soil structure causing a shift in the aggregate that does not allow for proper water absorption and risks runoff, and limits the space for ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- One thing about growing up here in the Deep South: We know how to dig holes. We're really good at digging holes for ourselves, holes so ambitious and deep we have a hard time getting ...

In this area we pay attention to the time when forsythia blooms. That’s the same time that crabgrass germinates, so it’s time to apply pre-emergent matter, and it’s a safe time to prune roses. We’ve ...

As a trained entomologist, I learned a lot of fancy names for common ordinary insects. We studied insects' order, family and species name. Most people just call these “bugs.” For example, we learned ...