This practice was started in 16th-century France, where French Intensive gardening, also known as biodynamic gardening, helped produce a lot of yield in less space. By using methods such as deep ...

A recent conversation with a gardener friend as to why he didn’t plant a winter garden made me consider my husband’s raised garden beds, now full to the brim of leafy winter vegetables. My friend ...

Raised beds are a lot easier. This writer has created raised beds directly on sod by first digging a trench around the new bed area, putting several layers of wet newspaper directly on the sod in the ...

Do you have an ugly old stump in your yard that you're not sure what to do with? This is a common problem. Grinding a stump can be costly. Digging one up is back-breaking work. Tree stumps take ...

What’s your gardening style? The way we garden can determine whether we are increasing or decreasing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Carbon has been on my mind lately following the release of ...

Spring is whispering around the corner, and your raised beds should be bursting with promise. Yet, despite all your planning ...

Sweet potatoes are a great substitute for white potatoes in your diet. Many people can't, or shouldn't, eat white potatoes. White potatoes contain small amounts of solanine, a naturally occurring ...

When considering dimensions for a raised bed, planting depth is essential. Determining how deep a raised garden bed should be depends on what you're growing and your preferences. Before you build a ...