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How-To
How to Use Cover Crops to Improve Soil

Productive vegetable gardening is all about soil fertility. The underlining principles of maintaining healthy soil are keeping the soil covered as much as possible, disturbing the soil as little as…
Design
Learn How to Support Soil Life

The vitality and resiliency of every garden depends on plants interacting with a vast array of insects, fungi, and microorganisms, especially those that make their homes in the soil. Through…
Design
Excellent Nitrogen-Fixing Plants

Whether you have a front-yard garden the size of a postage stamp or a 100-acre hayfield, the use of nitrogen-fixing plants in your landscape can boost your soil fertility. Nitrogen-fixing…
How-To
6 Ways To Make More Compost

My grandmother, who managed a working farm in my birthplace of Malta, gave me my first lesson on soil health when I was about seven. As we harvested lettuce for…
How-To
Get Serious About Compost: How to Make More, Better, Faster

Compost is not fertilizer. The sooner a gardener embraces this reality, the better. But gardener’s gold does have an undeniable importance in the garden: to feed the billions of critters…
Design
Clay Busters

These tough plants scoff at heavy clay soils
Design
Does Pressure-Treated Wood Belong in Your Garden?

Here’s the information to help you decide
How-To
Soil Testing Is Worth the Effort

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, even in the garden.
How-To
The Jury is Still Out on Compost Tea

Compost tea is currently hot in the gardening world, but will it also move beyond fad status?
How-To
All About the Soil Food Web (And Why It’s Important)

A few years ago, only a handful of people in the country had heard the term “soil food web.” Now it’s cropping up everywhere, and gardeners are wondering what on…

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