A productive garden does not require a luxury budget. It demands resourcefulness, solid planning, and the right tools in ...

Just about everybody agrees that raised beds are the way to grow vegetables in a home garden, especially when your alleged “soil” is lousy clay or construction fill. Raised beds elevate plants up and ...

Americans spend over $10 billion a year on lawn and garden fertilizers, and most backyard gardeners never question whether ...

Recycle woody debris into productive raised beds that retain moisture, improve drainage, and build fertile soil over time.

Control freaks (guilty!) can sometimes have conniption fits out in the garden, where everything from the weather to the worms simply cannot be tamed. But a DIY raised garden bed? In many ways, it’s ...

It's done a great job all summer, and is now spent. Give it some love so it's ready again in spring. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food ...

Midwesterners are resilient, and our vegetable gardens should be too.

Have you ever noticed that meadows and forests grow merrily without being tilled, amended or fertilized? Centuries ago, German gardeners did, and they began making garden beds the same way nature ...

Welcome to module one of the Building Soil Master Course, where Leah Webb describes how you can build your soil over time. She goes over the different components of soil, its chemistry, and the ...

You may be familiar with the health benefits (both physical and mental) that gardening can provide you as an individual, but at least one type of gardening in particular has the potential to help all ...

Welcome to our weekly podcast with longtime Anchorage Daily News garden writer and author Jeff Lowenfels and co-host Jonathan White. It’s a companion to Jeff’s weekly ADN gardening columns and his ...

Did you ever wonder how your neighbor gets those beautiful tomatoes every summer? Or how that one house has landscaping that looks so healthy? One secret is what makes a really good home for those ...