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Add about 1 inch of compost to your garden during fall, as it can break down and improve the soil over winter. Sow a Cover Crop. Cover crops are a great way to protect the soil over winter, as ...
The soil should be cool but mulching should be done before a hard freeze. Mulching too early traps heat and tricks plant roots to remain active and produce new growth. Applying too late leaves ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive.
Suburban forest garden in Sheffield, UK, with different layers of vegetation. Forest gardens or food forests are permaculture systems designed to mimic natural forests. Forest gardens incorporate processes and relationships that the designers understand to be valuable in natural ecosystems.
With record-breaking heat striking many places across the country and around the world, my social media feeds are filling up with gardeners’ laments – and photos of their fallen annuals and ...
Plant domestication is seen as the birth of agriculture. However, it is arguably proceeded by a very long history of gardening wild plants. While the 12,000 year-old date is the commonly accepted timeline describing plant domestication, there is now evidence from the Ohalo II hunter-gatherer site showing earlier signs of disturbing the soil and cultivation of pre-domesticated crop species. [8]
Hügelkultur bed prior to being covered with soil. Hügelkultur is a German word meaning mound culture or hill culture. [3] Though the technique is alleged to have been practiced in German and Eastern European societies for hundreds of years, [1] [4] the term was first published in a 1962 German gardening booklet by Herrman Andrä. [5]
You've likely heard that burying banana peels in your garden is a good way to add important nutrients to the soil to grow healthy plants. Banana peels do contain nutrients, but not as many as you ...