Read this expert advice from Barbara Pleasant on how to do a home test for safe compost, so you can avoid using compost, manure or mulch that has been contaminated with pesticide residues and may harm your garden.
Find out the risks of growing food plants on galvanized wire, and what precautions you should take when handling galvanized materials.
A soil fertility expert shares his advice on using wood ashes as garden fertilizer.
Radishes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Here are some tips and resources to get you started.
Sharp-eyed guineas are among the most useful of all farm fowl for control of crop-damaging insects. Essential to the author’s squash bug control project is ElectroNet (electric net fencing), which he uses to make a perimeter around the squash plot. A small moveable pasture shelter is provided inside the net — in which the guineas roost at night, or find shade or shelter from rain.
A reader wonders whether it is safe to use a galvanized stock tank as a garden planter.
A reaader from Pacifica, California wants to know what vegetables will grow best when.
Organic gardening expert advises on whether to build raised beds for a new garden.
A reader asks about when to plant potatoes.
Organic farming research has found that you can compost black walnut hulls successfully, despite the fact that they contain the toxic juglone compound.