How to Rejuvenate the Soil in Your Raised Garden Beds
It’s the end of the season, and we’re all starting to tuck in our garden beds for winter. The soil in your raised garden bed has worked hard all season…
You Should Recycle the Potting Soil From Your Dead Plants
In a corner of your local nursery, hidden way in the back, is a worker dumping out an endless stream of dead plants into a pile, and tossing the plastic…
How to Use Garden Lime (and Why You Need It In the Fall)
Photo: richsouthwales (Shutterstock) When we think about gardening, things like planting, watering, and harvesting usually come to mind first. But in reality, there’s a lot more to it—including what’s going…
10 Steps to Growing Your Dream Garden This Year
Photo: XArtProduction (Shutterstock) Besides seeing your plants grow (or harvesting your vegetables, if you have a vegetable garden), one of the most enjoyable aspects of gardening is putting them in…
Beetle larvae that eat polystyrene may help solve plastic waste crisis
By Alice Klein Expanded polystyrene is used for food containersMatthew Horwood/Getty Images Beetles with larvae that can digest polystyrene may help to solve the world’s mounting plastic waste crisis. Expanded…