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 ...

Recently, I was working with a group of community gardeners who had been planning to purchase a mechanical tiller for their garden. While the discussion started with the question of what type and size ...

While the practice of no-till gardening is not new, information has traditionally centered on agricultural field crops. Now, home gardeners are catching on. “The concept of no-till has been around for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

Although the practice of tilling gardens to prepare them for planting has come under scrutiny in recent years for its disruptive effects on soil structure, it's still popular with gardeners. The ...

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 ...