How much time and effort do you spend on your garden’s foundation? The soil is your plants’ nutrient source, and it can have a massive effect on your backyard crop haul. With this in mind, many ...

Tilling has both benefits and drawbacks when it comes to your soil. So should you till or not when preparing and maintaining your garden? That decision depends on several factors, and no one answer ...

This lower-maintenance technique is so much less tedious. Starting a garden involves a lot of prep work before you can really get to the good stuff. Traditionally, you'll need to clear the ground of ...

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 ...

Can a no-till garden really grow healthier plants with less effort? In this video, we put the no-till gardening method to the test and take a closer look at how it stacks up against traditional ...

Winter is the perfect time to sketch out no-till beds, set up a compost system, and choose native plants for spring.

“Be ye not afraid of doing something your venerable ancestors did, for the benefits to your aching back may be many” (Author anonymous) We all know that gardening involves a lot of hard work: hoeing, ...

Thank you for all the positive comments we receive about these articles. I enjoy helping out, so I am glad to answer any questions to submit to my editors. Q. My gardening friends tell me not to till ...

Benefits of no-till gardening Soil aggregates are important because their variation in size creates large and small pore spaces in the soil, which are used as pathways for water, oxygen and plant ...

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 ...