Why Your Composting Strategy Needs Worms

In one of my early years of gardening, I made a rookie mistake. I planted leaf lettuce — a lot of leaf lettuce. When those first early tender leaves started to appear out of the [ … ]

Container gardening dates back thousands of years to ancient cultures from places like Egypt, Rome, and the Orient. Despite lack of archaeological evidence to support their exact whereabouts, Greek and Roman writers like Strabo and [ … ]

It’s a story most gardeners know all too well. We start off the growing season with a blank palette of natural soil in an atmosphere of spring optimism, always confident that this will be the [ … ]