With so many choices available at garden centers, how do you choose the best mulch material for your vegetable garden? Wood chips or pine bark? Or perhaps a synthetic material that will help trap ...

Mulching is a very important task in helping to create the best soil in a vegetable garden. By developing the soil health and structure, it means better crops and bigger yields. There are many ...

Question. I understand mulch should be used in the vegetable garden to conserve water and help plants grow. What type of mulch is best? Answer. Perhaps there is no best mulch as successful gardeners ...

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Peter Richards plants vegetables in sheet mulch, and Joellen Dimond plants a container herb garden. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, local gardener Peter Richards shows how to ...

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 ...

When the heat goes up, the vegetable garden can go down if gardeners aren’t ready for Pennsylvania’s increasingly sizzling summers. Soil dries faster as temperatures rise, and the heat of 90-degree ...