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 ...

Winter is the perfect time to prepare raised garden beds for spring planting. Learn what to do in winter to have richer soil and fewer pests in raised garden beds.

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 ...

A little late-fall planning will support a bounty come spring. After harvesting your last garden vegetables of the season, it’s tempting to take a break from yard work and leave the brown remains of ...

A woman tending to small plants in a raised garden bed - Carlofranco/Getty Images That sinking feeling when your once-thriving vegetable garden starts to slow down and produce smaller harvests is ...

Once you've done all the work of constructing raised garden beds, filling them with all that soil, and growing beautiful crops all season, it can be heartbreaking to think about winter coming along ...

After the devastating layoffs at the paper in late January, a voluntary buyout period went into effect. Enough people accepted special severance packages that several of us were able to return to the ...

Spring is right around the corner, and I can't wait to get my garden started! I've already started seeds indoors that I know will do good even in cold weather since the beginning of spring has ...

As planting season is here, in this column we are providing information about raised-bed gardening. Raised-bed gardening is a popular technique for growing plants in Missouri. Vegetables, fruits, ...

Raised-bed gardening is a popular technique for growing plants in Missouri. Vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees and shrubs may be grown in raised beds, which can be attractive as well as useful.