This week, after a long spring of unseasonal and unpredictable weather events, our garden was treated to a much-needed spa day. We treated the entire property to a good foliar spray drenching of ...

With a keen interest in making more eco-choices in the yard, I'm always excited to learn of new organic fertilizers I can feed my plants to boost their growth. That combined with a love for composting ...

Compost tea can stop plant diseases, increase the amount of nutrients available to plants and even make the veggies you grow taste better!

Q: I've seen a couple of compost tea-brewing kits in catalogs. They're supposed to give you a really nutritious organic fertilizer that you make at home. What do you think of them? A: I don't have any ...

Numerous challenges exist in organic greenhouse production, one of the largest being a lack of amendments that can effectively serve as plant nutrients or pest controls and still be considered organic ...

Bay Area gardeners have something new to cheer about: Lyngso Garden Materials, the Redwood City-based landscape-supply center, is brewing compost tea for the public. According to company co-owner ...

Growing up in the 1950s, I helped my grandfather in his garden. He was a believer in organic gardening long before it became popular. By the age of 5, I was responsible for the daily stirring of a ...

Tea is just plant matter, which will compost and provide nitrogen back to the soil. But it won't do anything special for your garden. The gardening world is full of old wives' tales full of purported ...

When Leon Hussey moved into his Redmond home 29 years ago, he had no neighbors, but deer and coyotes roamed his property frequently. Today he is surrounded by homes, but he still has an eight-acre ...