If you have a garden area that’s hard to reach with a rototiller or even a shovel, consider sheet composting (sometimes called no-till or lasagna gardening). For example, I had a narrow plot ...

Lasagna gardening may sound like the most delicious pastime, but it doesn't actually refer to growing the tomatoes, herbs, and wheat that you could turn into the classic tiered pasta. Instead, it's ...

Switching up your yard usually means ripping up the grass, tilling, and fertilizing the soil to prep for new vegetation, but why not just cover it up? Sheet mulching uses a simple form of composting ...

Q: I would like to remove a section of my lawn. Is there a way to do this that does not involve a bunch of equipment? My back lawn is difficult to access from the street. During the drought I let my ...

In the wild areas on our planet, trees, bushes, and grasses grow on ground that has continual additions of new layers of dead and dying plant matter. Leaves fall from trees and shrubs, grasses dry in ...

Lasagna gardening is not growing plants that are used to make lasagna. It is a method of cold composting where organic materials are layered, like lasagna, on top of a garden site. It is a method used ...

At this time of year, the season of pumpkins, turkeys and falling leaves, I am putting my vegetable garden to bed for the winter. In the spring, when the soil is warm and I am anxious to plant, the ...

Lasagna gardening is a no-dig, no-till technique that builds healthy soil with very little work from the gardener. Lasagna refers to the technique of building the garden by adding layers of organic ...

Cold, wet weather brings opportunities to sit in front of a warm fire. But if you get out now to do some sheet composting, you'll be smothering weeds, feeding the soil, attracting garden worms and ...

Winter gardens are seeing cardboard take on a new role, acting as a protective layer over soil. This "lasagna composting" ...

Fall is filled with preparing gardens for the following season, raking leaves, and harvesting. Use plant trimmings and fall leaves to create raised beds and a quality planting mix without disturbing ...