If you have deciduous trees in your yard, you have a source of free gardening gold—autumn leaves. Rather than clogging landfills with bags of leaves, you can use them to enhance the soil, suppress ...

Question: I plan to make a soil mixture for a raised bed with peat, perlite, vermiculite and manure. How much of each should I use? Answer: Many blends of the ingredients you suggest are used in ...

Winter is the perfect time to prepare raised garden beds for spring planting. Learn what to do in winter to have richer soil and fewer pests in raised garden beds.

You remember that electric little thrill you get when you stumble onto a gardening secret so simple, so clever, so ridiculously effective that you wonder why it isn’t printed on seed packets in bold ...