Someone spraying liquid fertilizer on their garden plants. - VH-studio/Shutterstock With so many new forms of fertilizer on the garden scene, liquid seaweed is slowly becoming one of the go-to choices ...

Adding compost to your garden soil is a step that you really shouldn't be skipping. A well-made compost is the key to soil health because it adds essential nutrients, improves soil structure, and ...

Farmers and gardeners have used seaweed as mulch and fertilizer for centuries, and Mainers are lucky to have a free, abundant supply dumped on their shores year-round. The stuff brims with ...

Wow, what a difference a week makes! Last week my yard was full of nutrients and now after almost six inches of rain, totally stripped of nutrients. Where I live, Dec. 17 was mainly a rain event ...

12:19, Tue, Mar 18, 2025 Updated: 12:21, Tue, Mar 18, 2025 Seaweed, often seen as a nuisance on our summer beach trips, can actually provide valuable nutrients and minerals to our plants. Used as a ...

When enjoying a bit of time on the beach, seaweed can be seen as a bit of a nuisance. The slimy, cold plant is often an eyesore but have you ever considered it might be just what your garden needs?

If all those bags at the big box store confuse you, here's how to determine what kind of soil you need for your garden project. Before I became a gardener, the differences among all the soil mixes ...

15:05, Sat, May 10, 2025 Updated: 15:06, Sat, May 10, 2025 As May brings a surge of warmth as well as blooms and colour to gardens across the UK, gardeners are being urged to feed their lawns, and ...

It’s an uncharacteristically clear day in Sitka when Andrea Fraga picks me up in her skiff, her corgi, Olive, in tow. The local gardener and self-proclaimed homesteader has agreed to give me a tour of ...

The key to gardening is dirt. If you can grow good dirt now, you can grow good vegetables this spring. And you don’t have to run to the garden store to load up on boxes and bags of stuff to do it if ...