These easy-to-grow cover crops protect bare beds through winter and add organic matter to your soil.

As the growing season comes to an end, it’s time to protect the garden bed from compaction, erosion, and nutrient ...

Pumpkin and other cucurbit production in Indiana often involves intensive soil preparation to create a warm, weed-free ...

Entomologists explain why some pests head indoors when temperatures drop—and simple ways to remove them safely.

We love this organic gardening method.

A 20-year California field experiment shows that reduced tillage combined with cover crops more than doubles aggregate ...

Choose cover crops based on your soil's needs: legumes for nitrogen, grasses for nutrient trapping, and broadleaf crops for breaking up compacted clay.

The work you complete in your lawn and garden this fall can pay off with healthier plants and fewer problems next spring.

Deep inside the tissues of maize, wheat, rye, and their grass relatives runs a chemical assembly line that has been quietly shaping agriculture for millennia. Its products, the benzoxazinoids, are a ...

September 28–October 4. Harvesting and storing crops, planting winter crops, sowing green manure, preparing greenhouses, watering berry plants, and tilling the soil. What you need to get done in the ...

Cleaning up the garden for winter can help control pests and disease, but leaving some plant material behind can benefit soil ...

Gardeners clearing beds this October often wonder what comes next. Leaving soil exposed invites nutrient loss, compaction, ...