Tag: Gardening

4 Reasons Not to Use Landscaping Fabric in Your Garden

Landscaping fabric is designed to prevent weeds from growing by blocking sunlight, but it tends to be more trouble than it’s worth. In some cases, it can even have a detrimental effect on the health of your garden. When planning out your garden this spring, it’s important to make sure that you put the time… Read more »

How to Prepare Your Garden’s Soil for Planting

Now that spring has finally arrived, you may be thinking about adding some new plantings to your garden! Of course, a healthy garden always begins with good soil. Today we’ll offer a few suggestions to help you prepare your garden’s soil for planting. Don’t Start Too Early Ideally, you’ll start prepping your garden’s soil in… Read more »

A Gardener’s Guide to Tilling

With the weather turning towards spring, now is the perfect time to start thinking about your gardening for the summer season. This is the time when turning your soil and preparing it for planting is essential. There are few things in life more beautiful than the sight of freshly tilled earth. Before you fire up… Read more »

Making Mulch With a Wood Chipper

Savvy gardeners known that mulching is the icing on the top of the proverbial cake of every healthy flowerbed. Mulch doesn’t just make gardens look nice; it also helps to keep them weed-free and well fertilized. As the mulch decomposes every year, it adds a layer of compost to the soil that makes it more… Read more »