Farmers try to balance the big three nutrients for plant growth: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, since they are known to ...

If you feel strongly about eating your own home-grown, organic vegetables, and want to improve your garden soil, you need to learn how to make organic compost at home. For most gardeners, the ...

Where the plants do: the soil. “The place you want to start is the soil because everything comes from the soil,” says Phil Radspinner, vice president of a Northern California farm-and-garden supply ...

Using organic liquid plant feeds is a natural way to deliver a boost of nutrients to specific plants at a particular time. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in ...

Most gardeners do some composting. Some folks compost anything that once was part of a living plant, often mixing it with barnyard waste; they turn and aerate their piles and make terrific compost in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Before you can add new plants to an empty section in your garden, you must take some time to prepare your soil properly. Many gardeners ...