Discover the secrets to growing potatoes successfully in a woodchip mulch raised garden bed! In this video, we guide you ...

Question: This is the first year we did raised gardening, and we had much success. My husband is making heavy plastic tents with the ends open to keep the beds from getting soggy, hoping to just keep ...

Almost all vegetables in your garden benefit from most any type of mulch. Each type has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. Mulch is classified broadly into two categories — organic and ...

I’VE ALWAYS FAVORED RAISED BEDS – BOXED OR UNBOXED. OVER 30 YEARS, I’VE GARDENED AT EIGHT DIFFERENT HOUSES, EACH OFFERING GOOD AND BAD SOIL, SUN AND SHADE AND PLANTING SPACES THAT VARIED FROM AN ...

Here are some ideas for preparing your raised beds for winter. Take apart containers, put watering cans and décor items away, and drain your hose, pulling weeds and spent plants, applying winter mulch ...

Fruit trees can thrive anywhere, even in containers, so long as the drainage is good, they're not planted too deep, and receive proper nutrition. (Sharon Mollerus) We're well into winter, but ...

Question: I always hear that it is important to mulch the soil before winter. Can you recommend a good mulch for my vegetable beds? How about perennial beds? Thanks. Answer: Good questions for this ...

The recent cool and damp weather in late spring has plunged the soil temperature back to 50 degrees. This impacts the planting time of warm-season vegetable crops like tomatoes, peppers, beans and ...

Questions: Why do people build raised beds? Why not just plant directly in the soil? What’s the recommended height for a raised garden bed? Am I ruining everything by overcrowding my poor plants? What ...

Time is the arbiter of what works in a garden and what doesn't. It's why anything new requires at least a decade to discover its weaknesses. The great raised bed failure is right around the corner, as ...

Recently, I checked the soil temperature in my raised vegetable garden beds. The results were not encouraging. The temperature averaged a little short of 40 degrees; a level that is too low to sprout ...

PAJARO – Plasticulture to strawberry growers is like coffee to the working masses. It increases productivity, and while the fundamentals are consistent everyone has their own unique set of preferences ...