In addition to diseased plants, you should also pull weeds from your garden as soon as possible to ensure they don’t get the ...

As any avid gardener knows, having the right soil in your garden is one of the most important steps in achieving healthy plant growth. Unfortunately, homeowners with heavy clay soil in their yards ...

Does your garden have plants that don't look their best? Then, you may have a serious issue. First, you need to do is assess the area and nearby plants. If you don't see pests, rot, sun damage, or ...

Every winter, gardeners brace themselves for frost, snow, and the eerie silence of hibernating plants. But while you’re ...

Do we need to better soil ourselves? Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates wrote about something dirty in his March 26, 2019, edition of his Gates Notes. It didn't focus on cow farts, as he began the ...

Mulch can help retain moisture in the soil and act as a barrier to weeds. When used properly, it can enhance growing conditions for plants. However, when applied too heavily, it can cause problems for ...

There is no such thing as perfect soil. All soil has some sort of problem structure, texture or chemistry. Good soil is loose and crumbly because it has lots of air spaces, the National Garden Bureau ...

At the Carbon Farming conference in Australia earlier this month, speakers pointed to a problem that has worried environmentalists for about a decade: peak soil. China is losing soil 57 times faster ...

Gardens of houses built before 1978 (when lead-based paint was banned) are likely to contain soil with excessive levels of lead, according to an article in today's New York Times, which means that ...

In all my years of plant-related traveling and lecturing across the country and overseas, I’ve seen a lot of gardens and met a lot of gardeners. And while all of us have our own particular regional ...