How much time and effort do you spend on your garden’s foundation? The soil is your plants’ nutrient source, and it can have a massive effect on your backyard crop haul. With this in mind, many ...

The crunch of a plow tearing through rich, dark soil has long been the anthem of gardeners and farmers gearing up for a new ...

Winter is the perfect time to sketch out no-till beds, set up a compost system, and choose native plants for spring.

To till or not to till? Some might say running the tiller in the garden is the best part of it all. Other gardens never see a ...

Thank you for all the positive comments we receive about these articles. I enjoy helping out, so I am glad to answer any questions to submit to my editors. Q. My gardening friends tell me not to till ...

Tilling your garden can be helpful in certain situations but harmful in others. Tilling has both benefits and drawbacks when it comes to your soil. So should you till or not when preparing and ...

What is 'no-till' gardening? Is it better for my garden than traditional digging and tilling every year or not? What are the advantages of this method and how can I start using it? This method of ...

“Be ye not afraid of doing something your venerable ancestors did, for the benefits to your aching back may be many” (Author anonymous) We all know that gardening involves a lot of hard work: hoeing, ...

In the wild areas on our planet, trees, bushes and grasses grow on ground that has continual additions of new layers of dead and dying plant matter. Leaves fall from trees and shrubs, grasses dry in ...

Few of us can imagine gardening without the labor of digging. It seems, after all, that this is what you should do, what everyone always does and always has done to make a garden grow. The idea of not ...

Tilling has both benefits and drawbacks when it comes to your soil. So should you till or not when preparing and maintaining your garden? That decision depends on several factors, and no one answer ...