A practical guide to garden mulch: learn organic and inorganic types, benefits for moisture, temperature, and weeds, plus ...

If you’ve ever tried to keep your crops alive through the cold bite of winter, you know it’s a battle between frost and survival. Many gardeners and farmers reach for plastic mulch because it looks ...

Provides nitrogen, holds water like a sponge and slowly releases it into the soil, a weed suppressant, slow decomposition, slug control, deters deer, keeps soil cool in the summer and warm in the fall ...

In Washington’s Skagit Valley, the beginning of summer is largely marked by the first ripe, red strawberry. Just off of State Route 20 headed west out of Burlington sits the Skagit Valley location of ...

Many years ago early in my agriculture/gardening career, I discovered a book written by a woman who developed a novel way of gardening. Ruth Stout’s gardening technique involved applying layers of ...

Farmers will often place sheets of plastic on the ground along their crop rows, in order to help hold moisture in the soil. According to a new study, however, the use of wax-coated sand may be a ...