Try to turn your leaf pile every few weeks during the fall and winter. This little effort makes your leaf mulch ready sooner.

Austin area soils are famous for their poor quality. Ask any avid local gardener and they will give you a list of their soil woes. Ultimately what it comes down to is we have very little soil, the ...

As you prep your home and garden for winter, don't forget to tend to your lawn. Here's how to handle fertilizer for your ...

Yes, you need to fertilize your grass in the winter to keep your lawn healthy for next year. However, you'll need to perform ...

Undersowing maize with companion grass mixes can provide an effective way to prevent compaction during harvest, while also reducing nutrient loss and winter soil erosion without affecting crop yields.

Chop your leaves and use them to enhance your soil. Have a great yard. Save energy by not requiring a big yard waste truck to ...

I’ve heard there’s a public park on Whidbey Island with an eco-lawn and I’m thinking of using it on about 3/4 acres around our new house to replace our current sea of mud. Do you know where I can find ...

Brandon Wilcox had a problem. He was building a dream house for his family in San Diego and wanted the kids to have some grass to play on. But in the midst of the California water crisis, that would ...

The lawns at Tusmore House, a neo-Palladian mansion 15 miles north of Oxford, are so perfectly flat and exactingly shorn that they induce a kind of vertigo. Unlike familiar grass, with its divots and ...

Cooler temperatures offer a good time to plant some seeds and bulbs but make sure you know what's going in the ground.