It’s Alive! The Truth Behind The Living Soil

Volumes have been written about soil classification and competing systems have been devised for different purposes. The prevailing system in the U.S. includes some 13,000 “series”—roughly comparable to species in biology—grouped into 11 soil orders. [ … ]

We love our tomatoes, those round, colorful gifts from heaven. We stew them, crush them, can them and sauce them. Tomatoes are easy and fun to grow, but like every plant in the garden they [ … ]

One of the biggest horrors for a gardener to face is to come out one morning and see your vegetable plants and roses stripped into scraggly skeletons. The culprit of such disasters often is the [ … ]