Use Worm Counts To Assess Soil Health & Improvement
April 14, 2022The number and types of worms present in your garden over time can tell you a lot about your soil. Here’s how you can start taking worm counts.
5 Tips For Boosting Your Soil
January 18, 2016Innisfree Hotels/Flickr In their book, The Hidden Half of Nature, authors David R. Montgomery and Anne BiklĂ© show just how intertwined the health of our gardens is with the microbial world. Here are some of their tips for taking care of the beneficial microbes in your garden soil. 1. Cover Up Bare Soil Helpful microbes […]
UF Hack: Nitrogen Nurses
January 18, 2016Get to know your legumes to fix nitrogen into your garden soil and nurse other crops to life.
Dirty Kids Equal Healthy Kids
January 18, 2016Emerging research points out that the backyard garden just may be the cure for what ails us.
Chicken Vs. Goat Manure: Which Is Best?
January 18, 2016Your backyard livestock have more to offer than eggs and milk: They can provide fertilizer for your garden as well.
4 Cover Crops That Do Double-Duty
January 18, 2016Cover cropping is a strategy used by many growers, both large- and small-scale, to improve the soil without the use of chemicals. Cover crops offer your garden many benefits, ranging from reduced erosion and compaction to increased fertility and soil organic matter, and different types of cover crops serve different purposes: Legumes, for example, boost […]
12 Tips For Growing Terrific Tomatoes
January 18, 2016Ensure you grow plenty of juicy ripe tomatoes this summer for eating and preserving by following these simple growing tips.
6 Organic Mulches to Overwinter the Garden
January 18, 2016Just because the weather is getting cool doesn’t mean your gardening chores are finished. Don’t miss this important step in maintaining garden health.
6 Ways to Get More Out Of Your Small Garden
January 18, 2016Grow more food in your small space with these tips for keeping your soil healthy and crops productive season to season.
