Make your plants healthy and happy (and your life easier) by choosing the best mulch for your landscape. The right mulch will help your plants and trees stay healthy by retaining soil moisture and ...

A prospective outdoor gardener in a place without any viable soil faces a dilemma. Purchasing and moving large amounts of topsoil might compromise a secret location you’ve scoped out for cannabis ...

My sister Laura and Grandma Josephine tending the chickens on the family farm. Yes, that is a little genuine Minnesota straw in the foreground. Because the straw bale generates heat as the straw ...

Get started gardening in driveway planters. Here are easy straw bale gardening instructions to add some food and flowers to your sunny driveway. I was smitten with my driveway last summer. For several ...

Four years ago, a friend doing landscape work at Chip Prezioso’s Rosewood Drive business filled plant beds with artificial pine straw. Today, the pine straw at The South Carolina Shop looks good as ...

If you aren't ready to till part of your lawn and there's no room in your budget for raised beds, don't give up on starting a garden! There's another way to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and lots ...

Aims We investigated the priming effect (PE) of plant residue on soil organic carbon (SOC) to release substrates for methane (CH4) production. Methods Carbon-13-labeled rice straws were anaerobically ...

The survival of all beings mostly depends on agriculture, crops and its sustainability due to the application of fertilizer. A growing issue today is that fertilizer contains chemicals that are ...

The right mulch will help your plants and trees stay healthy by retaining soil moisture and keeping their roots cooler in summer and warmer in winter. It can also make your life easier by discouraging ...