Cold Composting: The Lazy Method That Still Produces Black Gold

I’ll let you in on a little secret. For most of my gardening life, I thought composting had to be …

After fifty years of gardening, if you told me I could only pass on one skill to the next generation, …

Cover Crops: The Free Soil Amendment Most Home Gardeners Have Never Tried After fifty years of growing vegetables, I can …

I first stumbled across biochar about fifteen years ago, long before it became a buzzword in gardening circles. A friend …

After fifty years of getting my hands in the soil, I’ll tell you that some of the most rewarding gardening …

After fifty years of tending herb gardens in the Mid-Atlantic, I’ve learned one thing the hard way: not every Mediterranean …

After fifty years of coaxing life from cold ground, I can tell you that gardening in Zone 3 teaches you …

I spent the first few years of my gardening life in northern Minnesota envying gardeners further south who seemed to …

I still remember the look on my neighbor Earl’s face when he spotted my apple trees loaded with fruit one …

A few summers ago, my neighbor Dorothy called me over to look at her backyard. She’d planted a beautiful Superior …

The 18-Day Compost: How to Turn Kitchen Scraps Into Rich Soil in Under Three Weeks