With the high cost of organics at the supermarket, you might assume that gardening organically is expensive and difficult. The fact is that it doesn’t have to be. You can start an organic garden quite ...

CORVALLIS – Adding organic matter is the best way to improve nearly all kinds of soils. If you’re unsure if your soil needs amendments, take note if it dries and cracks in summer, drains slowly or is ...

This is the third video in a 5 part series on seed saving for fruit and vegetable plants. In this episode (Ep3) I explain how ...

This is how I build a Hugelkultur raised bed vegetable garden or in other words mound culture/hill culture whereby soil is ...

SAN ANTONIO – It’s planting season! We are starting a new segment called Gardening with KSAT. I, Sarah Acosta, am attempting to bring our garden beds in KSAT’s courtyard back to life. I’m starting by ...

Dahlias come in a wide assortment of sizes, shapes and colors. When provided with good growing conditions they will bloom ...

I would like to improve the heavy clay soil in my vegetable garden. A friend suggested that I rototill several inches of sand to improve the drainage. Is that a good way to improve clay soil?

Many years ago early in my agriculture/gardening career, I discovered a book written by a woman who developed a novel way of gardening. Ruth Stout’s gardening technique involved applying layers of ...

Last fall, MOTHER EARTH NEWS launched our Organic Pest Control Survey to learn more about the best organic pest control methods — and the not-so-great methods — when it comes to limiting insect damage ...

Looking for Organic Gardening at the bookstore? The magazine has been rebranded as Rodale's Organic Life with the May/June issue, which hit newsstands last week. The new bimonthly magazine will expand ...

After 75 years, the Austin Organic Gardeners club keeps going and growing. The club is celebrating this anniversary by creating side-by-side areas at Zilker Botanical Garden that show examples of a ...