Getting your garden ready for fall and winter is key to ensuring healthy soil and a strong start next spring. To prepare your garden, you should clean up dead plants, add compost or organic matter, ...

Learning about the soil in your beds is important to successful gardening. Soil is the primary source of water and mineral nutrients for plants and must also provide sufficient oxygen to the root ...

Here are some ideas for preparing your raised beds for winter. Take apart containers, put watering cans and décor items away, and drain your hose, pulling weeds and spent plants, applying winter mulch ...

Raised garden beds are an easy way to grow vegetables. Dump good soil in a frame on the ground and plant. But gardening educator Melissa Mundt says if you want a successful summer garden in Tucson, ...

Tender bulbs: Dig up bulbs from cold-sensitive perennials, including dahlias, gladiolus, begonias, and cannas. Store the ...

Guests will explore a variety of composting and soil preparation methods, materials, equipment and tools, and discuss how to get a backyard composting system started, how to get veggie or landscape ...

What is 'no-till' gardening? Is it better for my garden than traditional digging and tilling every year or not? What are the advantages of this method and how can I start using it? This method of ...

As we all say modern problems require modern solutions, restrictions to tame the spread of Covid-19 has accelerated farmers' advance to organic farming due to inadequate farm inputs and overpriced ...

January is a great time for Marin County gardeners to prepare raised vegetable beds for the upcoming growing season. Amending the soil in winter months ensures that the beds will provide vegetables ...