5 Common Gardening Practices That Can Kill Your Soil

Does soil 'need digging' after, say, four to five years of no dig? No, this is a myth and completely untrue. For example, my garden at Lower ...

10 Easy Ways To Protect Your Garden From Animals & Pests

Fencing is the most effective way to protect your garden from pests and keep unwanted visitors out. A fence that's two to three feet tall will work for most ...

Gardening Tips: 12 Common Gardening Mistakes to Avoid

2. Planting too late. · 3. Not amending the soil. · 4. Adding too much nitrogen. · 5. Planting too close. · 6. Planting too deep. · 7. Using too much ...

Top 10 Common Gardening Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

1. Neglecting Soil Health · 2. Overwatering or Underwatering · 3. Planting at the Wrong Time · 4. Ignoring Plant Spacing · 5. Skipping Mulching · 6.

5 Methods for Growing a Vegetable Garden at Home

Using no-till methods moving forward will ensure increased soil health and fertility. You can also eliminate grass and start a garden in your ...

How to Kill Grass to Create a New Garden Bed

The primary disadvantages to tilling are that it can negatively impact soil structure, brings up weed seed that easily germinates, and chops up plants and roots ...

Five Essential Steps to Prepare Your Soil for Landscaping

The most common grass removal method is to kill everything with roundup, but if you're trying to avoid harsh chemicals, you can rent a sod cutter or kill ...

Organic Matter and Soil Amendments

Make your own backyard compost from leaves, grass clippings, kitchen scraps, and other materials. Every gardener can recycle at least some of ...

GARDEN MYTHS BUSTED - UC Marin Master Gardeners

Myth: Vinegar is an effective weed killer. Fact: Vinegar may kill because it's caustic. It might be effective on a small annual weed, but it's unlikely to ...

Planting a Pollinator Garden: A Quick Start Guide

If wood mulch is handy, that will work, or straw also makes a great mulch. Mulching around and between newly planted plants will greatly reduce ...

3 Common Gardening Injuries and How to Prevent Them

The most common gardening injuries include cuts and scrapes. Other gardening injuries can occur from lawn mower and tool accidents, ring avulsions, and using ...

Common Gardening Errors That Can Ruin Your Garden - UrbanMali

1. Not Preparing the Soil Properly · 2. Planting Too Close Together · 3. Not Watering Enough · 4. Over-Fertilizing · 5. Not Pruning Properly · 6.

5 Simple Secrets to Building Healthy Soil - The Micro Gardener

Gentle use of your garden fork to aerate your lawn or garden bed can assist with improving soil structure. Digging can weaken or destroy soil ...

Fall Gardening Tasks for a Better Garden Next Spring

... 5 Fall Gardening Tips: Why Fall Prep Is Important ... By following these tips you will drastically improve the quality of your soil and next ...

Why You've Been Removing Weeds Wrong Your Whole Life

... plant creates no soil disturbance and generates far fewer replacement weeds. But the plant will just come back, right? Yes, it will in a garden ...

Monthly Gardening Tips | Piedmont Master Gardeners

Get a soil test done to find out what, if any, nutrients your lawn may need. The Virginia Cooperative Extension office (at 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, ...

Mississippi Vegetable Gardener's Guide

Break the soil with a plow, rototiller, or spade. Plow or turn the soil to a depth of 7 to 8 inches. (Many smaller garden tillers will struggle or fail at this ...

No-Till Gardening: An Easier Way to Grow - GrowVeg.com

Now add a thick layer of well-rotted organic matter. This will suppress the growth of the weeds beneath by blocking out light, and provide ...

10 Top Gardening Tips for Beginners - Miracle-Gro

Misjudging sunlight is a common pitfall when you're first learning to garden. ... So if a plant is "hardy to zone 4" and you garden in zone 5, that plant will ...

coping with invasive jumping worms, with brad herrick of uw-madison

THE QUESTION “What do I do about the Asian jumping worms that are destroying my soil?” has outpaced what was the most common thing I was ...