The fall is the perfect time to prepare for a beautiful spring garden. Here's one thing that you can add to your soil to ...

Add minerals, compost, and mulch now and you'll have super-fertile soil come spring. As the busy garden season wraps up, there's one last—but very important—task to tend to: Feeding your soil.

The right amount of calcium in the soil can help plants grow healthy and strong. Test your soil first to determine how much ...

Mulch helps suppress weeds, keeps soil moist, and helps regulate soil temperatures. Adding a second layer of mulch after the ...

To help my students get exceptional results from their gardens, I teach them to build soil health with regular additions of ...

“Then you just scythe it all back, or mow it back, in the spring,” Zaman says, “and then you can start anew with a lot of extra nutrients in the soil.” Any sort of rye or short-lived perennial grasses ...

The question I receive most frequently from vegetable gardeners: How much fertilizer should I apply? The second most frequently asked question: How can I get better vegetable yields in my garden? Both ...

Wood ashes can be a valuable resource for amending garden soil. Anyone using a fireplace or wood stove knows that a large amount of wood ashes can accumulate over a heating season. When applied under ...

In this week's Ask the Gardener, we also tackle the thorny question of pruning hydrangeas. And if you've got a 'Live Forever' plant, we've got some tips to help that live up to its name. The ...

When gardeners consider improving their soil, they often turn to compost, cover crops, or expensive amendments; however, there is one common vegetable that can help do the job while it grows. That ...

SOIL SUPERHEROES: Beans, peas and other plants in the same family grow nodules on their roots that allow them to partner with soil-borne bacteria to turn atmospheric nitrogen into plant-available ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida residents about sunflowers, fan flowers, poinsettias, sod and cocktail ...