Tag: soil

Planting Should Not Be Complicated

UNITED STATES—Autumn and winter are generally the best seasons for planting. Most vegetation is either less active than during other seasons, or dormant. It...

Rotation Makes Gardens Go Round

UNITED STATES—Vegetables are greedy as they grow. They crave rich soil. They exploit it and abandon it at the end of their season. Nutrient...

Soil Is More Than Dirty

UNITED STATES—All weeds are plants. Not all plants are weeds. Weeds are a specifiable subset of plants. Specifically, weeds are plants that grow wildly...

Crop Rotation Promotes Garden Efficiency

UNITED STATES—Maya Angelou likely enjoyed gardening. She said, "In diversity there is beauty and there is strength." That is how the healthiest of ecosystems,...

Mulch Retains Moisture And Insulates

UNITED STATES—Nature is smart. It should be. It has been operating efficiently since the beginning of time. That is certainly longer than anyone has...

Saturation Of Soil Distresses Roots

UNITED STATES—Saturation of the soil should be a rare problem within the local chaparral climates. Water is a limited resource. That is why plants...

Mulch Is Imitation Of Nature

UNITED STATES—Every living thing in our gardens came from the wild somewhere. A few plants might be natives trying to adapt to synthetic landscapes....

Mulch Suits Autumn Quite Naturally

UNITED STATES—It is silly for us to think that we know more about gardening that the plants who live out in the garden full...

Planting Cool Season Cover Crops

UNITED STATES—Traditional horticultural technology that was so common in the orchards, that were likewise more common, was more practical than so much of what...

Pots And Pans Need Cleaning

UNITED STATES—This is getting to be cliché. “While they are dormant through winter," plants tolerate all sorts of abuse that would offend them at...
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