All plants in your yard need soil with a proper amount of essential nutrients, vitamins, and other all-around good stuff to thrive and grow beautifully, so purchasing the wrong additives can do your ...

By now, you’ve harvested all, or at least most, of the vegetables in your garden. At this point the soil is naked, and that’s ...

The conventional way that gardeners solve bad-soil trouble is by adding organic matter such as compost, leaves, grass clippings, and/or rotted manure – or bypassing in-ground planting altogether ...

so it’s useful to know your soil’s pH. Testing kits are easy to use and widely available in garden centres and online. pH of 6.5, so testing the level before adding the Can refer to either home-made ...

In the past, peat has been used for soil improvement and mulching, but other materials are better suited to these tasks. Peat is never used as a soil improver or mulch in RHS Gardens. Soil can be ...

When to keep and when to remove some of the fastest-growing U.S. weeds. While some weeds are a nuisance, some feed people and ...

It is important to get the soil temperature right when planting potatoes. Ideally, it should be at a minimum of 10C up to ...

"Initially, we believed nothing could come from this rocky land, but now we're successfully growing crops and preserving our ...

Happy belated Bamboo Day! Last year was the first year I brought attention to Sept. 18. During the 8th World Bambo Congress, ...

You'd think L.A.'s 'perfect' street tree would be a California native. So why does the city plant so many trees from ...

DEAR NEIL: We have two large crape myrtles next to our community pool. They were damaged by the February 2021 cold spell.

In Mariposa County, Happy Goat farm builds community by sending out its herd, farm-to-school programs, a restaurant, and more ...