All keen gardeners know the importance of having good soil structure that supports healthy plant growth. Drainage and aeration are key to aiding moisture management, and it turns out you can improve ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The most consumed drink in the world has more benefits than just keeping us awake. Spent coffee grounds can be used as a soil amendment and compost ingredient, while liquid coffee ...

As a farmer, increasing crop productivity and profitability helps your operation to succeed, both now and in the long term. That’s why protecting your land matters. It’s balanced to sustain plants, ...

Coffee grounds can provide some nutrients and improve the texture of soil. Learn how coffee grounds can benefit ten plants in the garden.

Every gardener wants the best soil for their garden. How do you know if your soil is "good"? What do you add to make it good? When you go to a plant nursery or the gardening section of a big box store ...

Also, how to choose, and use, the best mulch. With the summer heat already here and water supplies severely limited, many of us are anxious about being able to keep our gardens looking beautiful ...

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 ...

In the fall, the potting soil in containers is usually depleted of nutrients and compacted. Reusing potting soil again the next year is therefore not recommended. At most, you can recycle the soil of ...

Q: I have limited space in a tiny city front yard and would like to block some of my view of the street. What types of evergreens would work well but not get too wide? A: The width of the mature ...

Think of good soil structure, if enlarged, looking somewhat like the structure of a well-baked chocolate cake with its crumb-like structure that has lots of space between each "crumb." Then think of a ...