This week's gardening column explains when to prune roses, butterfly bushes, and walnut trees, plus the benefits of no-till gardening.

At bottom, gardening is all about dirt — its care and feeding, its microbes and fungi, bacteria and earthworms. Science has gradually recognized that the soil’s vibrant but delicate food web must be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rolleen Annie and Rowena Ho K/Getty Images Starting a garden involves a lot of prep work before you can really get to the good ...

While the practice of no-till gardening is not new, information has traditionally centered on agricultural field crops. Now, home gardeners are catching on. “The concept of no-till has been around for ...

With much of the West either “abnormally dry” or in drought conditions, no-till farming advocates say that method could be a way to better utilize the water that’s available. No-till farming — also ...

You don’t need a ton of rainfall to grow wheat, but you still need some. Over the past 40 years, Central Washington farmer Mike Nichols and his family have learned to adapt to an unusually dry climate ...

Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...

Some of the best home gardening results come from techniques humans have embraced for centuries, sometimes millennia. TikToker Adrienne S (@essenceofadrienne) embraces the "no-till" gardening method ...

HAMPTON, Iowa — Long-time Practical Farmers of Iowa members Doug Alert and Margaret Smith have looked at organic no-till planting into cover crops, a system pioneered by Jeff Moyer at the Rodale ...

"That is a no-till method of prepping new land," Meg Bantle said, overlooking the small Adams plot that she and Laura Tupper-Palches rent from Burnett Farm. No-till? For those not in the farming know, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Changing 60 years of farming one way to try the no-till method on his fields doesn't give Marshall wheat grower Boyd Cline second thoughts, but it does give him the willies."I'm not ...