The best fill materials for raised garden beds are the ones that can decompose on their own, like twigs, leaves, straw, and more. Starting your raised bed with a layer of cardboard or newspaper can ...

Finding success with a raised vegetable garden always begins with the soil. The best type of soil mix should balance nutrients, proper drainage, and room to breathe. Vegetables tend to demand a higher ...

ROCHESTER — Successful gardening is all about the soil. Plants, like people, need healthy, nutritious food to grow. My family and I built raised bed garden boxes for vegetables because I am a true ...

Fill a raised garden bed on a budget with these money-saving tips and techniques. Raised bed gardening can be an excellent solution for properties with poor soil, drainage issues, and other problems.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Last week we explored the three basic ingredients that make a good soil for raised beds: compost, filler (such as peat moss or coconut coir), and grit (often vermiculite or perlite) ...

Just about everybody agrees that raised beds are the way to grow vegetables in a home garden, especially when your alleged “soil” is lousy clay or construction fill. Raised beds elevate plants up and ...

January is a great time for Marin County gardeners to prepare raised vegetable beds for the upcoming growing season. Amending the soil in winter months ensures that the beds will provide vegetables ...

Growing vegetables in raised beds offers many benefits. Raised beds give your garden a sense of scale and structure, limit the presence of weeds in beds, and are easier on the body as they require ...

So many factors have a stake in how a vegetable garden grows, from sun exposure to soil quality to daily temperature, making it tough to know what can actually take root in your yard—not to mention ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Let’s start this gardening column with a quick personality quiz: What kind of salad dressing do you like? Your answer to this question is a clue as to how you should go about ...

We seem to be stuck in a somewhat dreary weather “holding” pattern of sorts, it’s Southeast Texasnormal for late winter! Afterwards, the “icky” days (clearly not a meteorological term) are followed by ...