Garden Care

Crop rotation means moving each vegetable family to a different spot each year so pests and soil diseases lose their favorite host and your soil doesn’t get drained of the same nutrients over and over. You don’t need acres of land to do it. You need to know which family each vegetable belongs to, and…

Weeds don’t need an invitation. Leave a patch of bare soil in your garden for even a week, and something green will find it. The good news is that you don’t need to spend every weekend on your knees fighting them. Once you understand why weeds show up in the first place and how mulch…