Regardless of what you’re growing, your plants need nutrients. Without fertilizer, your plants will fail to thrive and grow ...

Should you use shredded paper as garden mulch? It might sound like a quirky, even questionable idea at first—but don’t toss ...

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The novice gardener revealed that they had ordered topsoil to fill in their vegetable garden while planting their seedlings.

Warm autumn days will soon be followed by winter’s frigid temperatures, frost on the plants and frozen ground. With this in mind, the owner of Red Chair Gardens and a consumer horticulture educator ...

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Fall testing is ideal because it gives you plenty of time to get results back from the lab and to begin improving your soil before planting.

Typically, cabbage is ready to harvest 70 to 100 days after planting —though this timeframe depends on the variety. "It's ...

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Self-reliance is the core of the Metro Atlanta Urban Farm philosophy, whether that’s nurturing a patch of tomatoes or okra in ...

Some perennials, though, are best cut back in fall. Hosta, iris and daylilies don’t have rigid stems, and quickly flatten ...