Mulch is one of those things we don’t typically give a lot of thought to. We are pretty sure we need it because everyone else is spreading i...

You know the growing season here in Utah is winding down when the city turns off your access to secondary water. You see, here in Utah we re...

I raked up a bunch of leaves from our Peach, Pear and Cherry tree leaves and placed them on the four raised beds I use for vegetables. I rec...

One perpetual question homeowners deal with is what to do with grass clippings. Of course some people don’t worry about it, they just throw ...

I am looking forward to the rebirth of my garden with the anticipation of a father expecting his first child. Even though I know I mulched i...

I decided to expand the plot where my raspberries are growing. Earlier this year I put a birth bath here and it just looked naked in a grass...

I decided to try something different this year with my leaves. I have three fruit trees along the west side of the backyard and they drop a ...

Here’s what I discovered in reading about mulching for winter. What is the difference between summer mulch and winter mulch anyway? I mean, ...

A newly reported study* confirms the long-suspected hypothesis that living mulch increases populations of predatory insects (beneficial in...

Spring is really beginning to speed up. With the warmer temperatures, freaky as it may be, everything is beginning to green up. We can expec...

With clay soil, this theme will be repeated over and over, every year, for a very long time. First, the easy part, I plan on starting a rou...

Temperature went a little crazy today, started at 6:00 AM at 45F and then slowly dropped to 36F as the day progressed and is predicted to be...