Covering garden beds in winter protects against frost damage or soil erosion. The best time to cover beds is after the ground freezes but before heavy snow. Lightweight mulch such as shredded bark is ...

Shade—you either love it or hate it. Gardeners often fall into the latter category because low-light conditions prevent the ...

While many vegetable gardeners probably got a few new gardening tools and books from their holiday wish list, there’s another must-have gardening tool that should be in every green thumb’s garden shed ...

Maybe after you finish your vegetable harvest, you mentally say, “I’m done this year,” and wait to start again next year. But a cover crop could benefit you in several ways. By researching now, you ...

A bumblebee dangles from a flower of crimson clover, a valuable soil-building cover crop that can be easily hand-seeded into vegetable garden beds. A bumblebee dangles from a flower of crimson clover, ...