Mulching is vital fall prep to ensure our garden soil is at optimum health come spring. Covering bare soil is a way of ...

My garden sure wood be nothing without mulch! Like choosing the right plant for the right place, mulch should match the conditions and plants growing in your garden. Mulch can be plant-based: compost, ...

Learn expert tips on winterizing your garden effectively, covering plant protection, soil care, and tool maintenance for a ...

Every gardener wants the best soil for their garden. How do you know if your soil is "good"? What do you add to make it good? When you go to a plant nursery or the gardening section of a big box store ...

An ongoing mantra of the UC Marin Master Gardeners is to compost, compost, compost and mulch, mulch, mulch. Compost is decayed material used as a plant fertilizer and soil conditioner. Soil is the ...

Many years ago early in my agriculture/gardening career, I discovered a book written by a woman who developed a novel way of gardening. Ruth Stout’s gardening technique involved applying layers of ...

Applying mulch to your garden is easily done but sometimes a bit mysterious. “Do I mulch just to make things look pretty, or does it serve other purposes?” “Am I a bad gardener if I don’t use mulch?” ...

WHEN LEAVES BEGIN to drop in the fall, astute gardeners take time to improve the soil in their gardens by sheet mulching. Sheet mulching, also known as lasagna gardening, is an organic, layering ...

Here is a great opportunity to get involved in supporting local community gardens. Saturday from 5-8 p.m. is the Tonopah Community Gardens' first Wine and Cheese Fundraiser. The garden is located at ...

Before seeds set, cut down the rye to use as mulch for a healthy spring vegetable garden. Another type of legume popularly used as a cover crop to fix nitrogen in the soil, peas (Pisum sativum) ...

If you have cleaned up the vegetable garden and cut back your perennials, you might be feeling just a little smug — especially since this gardening guy admits he is behind you in completing those ...

My landscape company was just working on my garden and finished edging all the beds and tree rings. Should I be concerned about the soil piled up against the base of my trees? — Jacob Anderson, ...