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| National Gardening |
Composting Q and A Starting a Compost Pile... Critters in Compost...Foul-Smelling Compost Pile... Adding Compost to a Perennial Garden... Speeding Decomposition... Planting Directly in Compost... Compost Quantity...Compost vs. Mulch... Materials to Compost... Sawdust in Compost Pile...   |
| National Gardening |
Making Compost Compost improves soil texture by increasing the drainage of heavy clay soils and the water and nutrient retention of light, sandy soils. Here's what you'll need to get your compost started. |
National Gardening
October 1999
Charlie Nardozzi |
What's Your Composting Personality? Take our quiz ... become a better composter |
This Old House
Clayton Dekorne |
Compost Haste Turn food and lawn scraps into garden nourishment. |
| National Gardening |
Building Soil 101 A steady program of soil building is like a steady program of physical conditioning. You'll get great results in the long run if you stick with it and don't go overboard right away. |
This Old House
Kathryn Keller |
5 Steps to Quick Compost Use this "hot" method to get garden-ready black gold in just two weeks |
National Gardening
Suzanne DeJohn |
Top 10 Things to Do with Fall Leaves Fall leaves are like a big load of free organic fertilizer strewn about your yard. If those nutrients were bagged and sold, you'd pay money for them. In your yard, they're free -- except for the labor of gathering them |
| National Gardening |
Fall Garden Cleanup Q and A Here are some questions we've received about fall cleanup in the garden, along with the answers given by our regional horticulture staff. |
National Gardening
Warren Schultz |
Building Great Soil Soil is the most important factor in successful gardening. Here are tips on evaluating and improving your soil. |
National Gardening
Carrie Chalmers |
Organic Matters Balance green with brown to maximize the benefits of soil amendments... |
| National Gardening |
Improve Soil Fertility with Compost A little soil common sense will go a long way to helping you understand how to care for your garden. All soils are not the same; they differ in many ways, including texture, fertility, and pH. |
| National Gardening |
Tools for Preparing the Garden Before a single plant even touches the ground in your garden, it would be wise to spend time preparing the soil. You'll have fewer weeds and diseases and better plant growth, flowering, and fruiting later. |
National Gardening
Skip Richter |
Turn Leaves into Gold These golden leaves can be turned into "black gold" for the garden. They make great soil-enriching compost or a protective mulch. |
| National Gardening |
Soil Fertility 101 Just as a good foundation is necessary to support a building, good soil is necessary to build a successful garden. All soil is not alike. It differs in texture, fertility, and balance. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Getting Gardens Ready for Winter While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall planting time, most gardeners across the country know it's time to wrap up the garden. |
| National Gardening |
Chipper-Shredder Basics With the pressure on America's landfills, chipper/shredders may soon find their place in the garage next to the lawn mower as the power equipment almost everyone needs to own. |
| National Gardening |
Organic Fertilizers 101 Most soils benefit from the addition of fertilizer. Benefits to using organic fertilizers instead of synthetic fertilizers include fewer applications. |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
May Is for Mulching Decorate and protect your beds now, before the heat of summer sets in. |
| National Gardening |
Improving Clay Soil If your garden has heavy clay soil, you know what a challenge it can pose to plants, not to mention gardeners. Heavy clay drains slowly, meaning it stays saturated longer after rain or irrigation. |
| National Gardening |
Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops. |
| National Gardening |
Trench Planting Your Root Crops A quick way to improve soil for root crops... |
This Old House
September 2007
Roger Cook |
Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor. |
| National Gardening |
Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success. |
National Gardening
Lee Reich |
Organic Fertilizers How to choose and use organic fertilizers. |
National Gardening
Deborah Wechsler |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
This Old House
Jeanne Huber |
Worm Bins Get step-by-step directions on how to build this gardening asset. |
National Gardening
Jack Ruttle |
The Tomato-Vetch Connection A USDA-devised mulch system is revolutionizing tomato farming... |
| National Gardening |
Lawn Care Techniques Keeping your lawn looking good isn't as hard as you may think. |
This Old House
Keith Pandolfi |
Green Acres How to break your lawn's addition to synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. |
| National Gardening |
Organic Gardening 101 The gardener who is committed to organic gardening does not simply boycott artificial chemical fertilizers and pesticides. He or she is committed to techniques that build healthy soil. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Top 2 Ways to Compost Smart and Cut Your Organic Waste As a first step, pare down on paper products -- the largest single category of garbage. Then plan meals more carefully |
| National Gardening |
Power Equipment 101 Whatever the lawn and garden task, turn the job into fun. |
National Gardening
Lynn Ocone |
Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works |
| National Gardening |
Soil Prep for Alliums Onions will grow in practically any kind of soil, but one that's rich in decayed organic matter and humus and drains well is best. |
This Old House
Jeanne Huber |
Back to Nature The greenest approach to landscaping returns a yard to its roots. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
Say Good-bye to Weeds Think it's an overstatement to call it the war against weeds? Here's what you're up against... |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009 |
How to Build and Install Raised Garden Beds These controlled experiments in plant parenthood are so easy, in fact, that they're also well-suited to novices picking up a shovel for the first time. |
| National Gardening |
Preparing Soil for Greens When it's early in the season and nearly time to plant a host of greens, put in a little time with your garden soil to prevent weed problems. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Elizabeth Svoboda |
NatureMill Automatic Indoor Composter Turns Human Food into Plant Food Compost keeps food waste out of landfills while enriching garden topsoil -- but producing it at home can be a dirty job |
| National Gardening |
Oriental Poppy Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability. But you should still heed these tips. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Common Sense Five simple home tests for basic soil problems, with proven remedies |
Popular Mechanics
November 3, 2009
Christine Woodside |
The Trail Boss's Guide to Leaf-Cleaning at Home We came up with advice from real trail bosses about the best ways to clean up leaves from yards and roofs and where to put them. |
National Gardening
Michael MacCaskey |
Garden Grinders Reducing yard waste with a chipper-shredder |
National Gardening
William Jordan |
Compost Happens In the compost bin is the meaning of life... |
Popular Mechanics
September 19, 2008
Ryan M. Wilson |
How to Plant for Fall and Prepare Your Garden for Winter Planting a fall garden can be a rewarding effort and a great start to preparing your entire yard for winter's dormancy as the last head of lettuce is plucked. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2000
Joseph R. Provey |
Green Pastures Not all lawns that are in bad shape need to be replaced. A well-executed restoration plan can bring all but the worst turf back to life. |
| National Gardening |
Lawns 101 Much has been said about whether or not Americans should rethink their passion for the home lawn. If you determine that a grass lawn makes sense for your yard, planting the right variety of grass at the right time of year will go a long way in making yours a healthy, easy-care lawn. |
This Old House
Josh Garskof |
Get Ready for Fall Now's the best time to spruce up your yard |
| National Gardening |
Making a Raised-Bed Garden Raised beds are popular because they are relatively easy to build, plant, weed, and maintain. |
| National Gardening |
Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow. |
