Hugelkultur: The Ultimate Raised Garden Bed?
Hugelkultur mimics the way a forest uses organic matter, but in reverse. This method uses tree wood to feed your garden for years.
Soil Conditioning
Posts about building your soil organically for the healthiest vegetables, fruits, flowers, shrubs, and lawn.
The Thriving Ecosystem in Your Lawn’s Soil and Why it Matters
We don’t think of the grass in our lawn as we do the plants in our gardens. Yet grass is a plant like any other and requires a thriving soil ecosystem.
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September Gardening Tips: Enrich Soil, Protect Garden Beds, Divide Daylilies
September gardening tips include protecting your garden soil, getting houseplants ready for winter, dividing daylilies, and visiting an apple orchard.
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Review: Building Soils Naturally by Phil Nauta
Phil Nauta’s Building Soils Naturally focuses on how to improve garden and lawn soil health by balancing your soil’s nutritional components.
Compost: Today’s Leftovers, Tomorrow’s Plant Food
When you compost your garden, plants need less fertilizer, soil quality improves and plants show more tolerance to diseases and pests.
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Spring Lawn Care: 8 Tips For An Organic Lawn
Spring is the best season to start organic lawn care. It’s time to sort out problems with thatch and weeds, and improve your soil.
Turn Autumn Tree Leaves Into Compost, Mulch, And Organic Fertilizer
Tree leaves that fall every autumn make fantastic compost or mulch to feed your garden plants. Here’s how to use them.
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Rototilling Your Organic Garden: More Harm Than Good?
Rototilling doesn’t benefit a garden. It creates more weeds and damages soil structure and organisms that takes months to reverse.
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How I Solved Drainage Problems In My Yard
If water is pooling on your lawn and refuses to drain, either your soil is compacted or there are grading issues. Both can be fixed.