You’ve been taught that turning over your soil prepares the perfect bed for planting. It feels natural, satisfying even, to slice through the earth and watch it crumble beneath the blade. But here’s ...

While working as a landscaper and gardener off and on for almost 30 years, I’ve always been amazed at the ability of spindly vegetable and flower plant starts to grow into hardy, full-sized plants. To ...

In the wild areas on our planet, trees, bushes and grasses grow on ground that has continual additions of new layers of dead and dying plant matter. Leaves fall from trees and shrubs, grasses dry in ...