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Kickstart your organic vegetable garden at home with these 6 essential tips for beginners. Learn practical strategies for soil preparation, planting, watering, pest control, and harvesting to grow ...

I would like to improve the heavy clay soil in my vegetable garden. A friend suggested that I rototill several inches of sand to improve the drainage. Is that a good way to improve clay soil?

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. –Francis Bacon (1561-1626) You can often hear people say, “Back before agricultural chemicals were introduced, all food was organic.” That’s true. And here’s ...

Save time and resources with easy gardening for seniors to make your experience more enjoyable. On my 75th birthday, I ...

My friend says my garden and landscape would grow better if I would practice organic gardening methods. You have written about both approaches in your columns. What do you recommend? Since my readers ...

A gardener plants a small plant in a bed of gardening soil - Alex Ratson/Getty Images If you're looking to a take a more natural approach to gardening, choosing an organic gardening soil is a great ...

If you want to turn a house into a home then a garden is going to be your best move. And if you want to really improve the value of your home, it’s a productive garden where you can harvest ...

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 ...

Since the natural organic approach works so well, why do so many people still recommend and use toxic chemical pesticides and salt fertilizers? I’ve written about “organiphobia” in the past, but there ...