From fruit trees to flowering bulbs, here's exactly what to plant in October for a beautiful and bountiful garden all year.

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While you're cozying up during winter, your garden is working, growing cold-hardy plants and prepping for spring. The mulch ...

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While a fall application of mulch can be beneficial to plants, we have seen a growing trend of piling mulch much deeper than ...

Before making leaf mold, you’ll have to decide where to contain it. You can enclose leaves in a chicken-wire surround, pile ...

Generally, we are most active in the garden in the spring and early summer, but this is the time to do some planning.

Shredded Mulch. Image by Dvortygirl, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Mulch functions as more than just an aesthetic ...

It has been a warm fall season so far and I am enjoying working in my garden. There is no frost in the weather forecast, so I suspect frost will be later than usual this year. When a killing frost ...

As you’re prepping your garden for its winter slumber, you might want to add an unexpected to-do to your fall gardening checklist: mulching. While garden mulching is often associated with spring ...