These red flags reveal raised bed soil that needs a little compost and TLC. Here's what they are and how to save your soil.

Doing these August garden jobs can decide how your garden will end this year and how next year’s garden will begin.

August is the perfect time to go shopping for next year's flowers - right in your flower bed. Save these seeds!

Garden trends are nothing new. But which ones stand the test of time? Here are five popular trends that I've decided to ...

You could say we have an obsession with compost around here. And why wouldn’t we? It’s the perfect organic soil amendment – nutrient-rich and filled with microbial life – that we can make ourselves, ...

Remember this one rule: bury deep and cover well! When we’re composting in place (also called composting in situ), we’re cutting out the middleman and putting the plant material straight into the ...

I’m of the mind that there are few landscaping problems that more plants can’t solve. Need privacy, better drainage, weed displacement, or to cover up an ugly view? Well, there’s a plant for that. So ...

Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) is an ancient North American species, wilder than most other plants you can grow in your edible landscape. Having only been in cultivation for about 100 years – a mere ...

Gardening comes with a lot of anecdotal wisdom, and not all of it works. However, one bit of gardening advice that’s proven to work time and again is to plant tomatoes on their side in a trench or ...

I’m sure this soil used to be higher? One of the benefits of growing in raised beds is complete control over the contents and quality of the soil – but this can also be one of its biggest drawbacks.