What Is No-Dig Gardening? While it might seem counter-intuitive to grow a garden without digging, take a moment to consider how forests and meadows grow in nature with no help from us. Leaf litter and ...

Here’s a great little gardening secret: chips with everything Brought up on a steady diet of old-school gardening books, as we get into autumn I would once have been convinced that now was time to ...

At the risk of being obvious - a no-dig garden is one you don't have to dig. It sits above the ground and doesn't have soil. But it contains plenty of other good stuff - such as layers of organic ...

The process of mulching is, at its most simple, the act of covering the soil with material. Depending on what material you use, mulching has a multitude of benefits and is one of those rare once or ...

If you want to get gardening in 2020, but aren’t sure where to begin, no dig innovator Charles Dowding has a few tips and tricks up his sleeve... Charles Dowding has been a lead innovator of organic ...

Ahead, they explain the most common mistake gardeners make when applying mulch, how to correct it, and the one rule they ...

Q: What do I do about weeds before applying mulch? Several people have told me to kill them with Roundup first, wait until they die, dig them up, and then put the mulch down. Is there a way to avoid ...

Weeds sprout up among your ornamental plants and vegetables, competing with them for essential nutrients from the soil. Often people opt to dig up these weeds, but this can damage your garden some ...

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Are you ready to mulch your yard, but not sure what kind of mulch is best. What about those weeds that are starting to crop up all over your lawn? Garden guru AJ Petitti covered a lot of ground with ...

The first few weeks of April are ideal for turning lawn or bare space into garden beds. You’ll have the soil ready just in time for prime planting season. One caveat, though. Never dig soil when it’s ...