Q: I see you don't recommend tilling vegetable gardens in the fall. But do you think it should be done every year in the spring? We are debating buying a rototiller or just renting one as needed. A: ...

Recently, I was working with a group of community gardeners who had been planning to purchase a mechanical tiller for their garden. While the discussion started with the question of what type and size ...

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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 ...

Few of us can imagine gardening without the labor of digging. It seems, after all, that this is what you should do, what everyone always does and always has done to make a garden grow. The idea of not ...

If this is not the first time gardening in this spot, use last years’ garden plan as a guide to place this year’s crops. To break disease and insect cycles, if space permits, don’t put crops of the ...

There are many reasons why more and more people have started growing their own food. A few of these reasons include putting yourself in control of the fertilizers and pesticides that are applied to ...

With fresh, year-round produce available at the grocery store, vegetable gardening for beginners may seem pointless, not to mention challenging. But growing fruits and vegetables is a great way to ...

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 ...