Tag: soil
Rotation Makes Gardens Go Round
UNITED STATES—Vegetables are greedy as they grow. They crave rich soil. They exploit it and abandon it at the end of their season. Nutrient...
Soil Is More Than Dirty
UNITED STATES—All weeds are plants. Not all plants are weeds. Weeds are a specifiable subset of plants. Specifically, weeds are plants that grow wildly...
Crop Rotation Promotes Garden Efficiency
UNITED STATES—Maya Angelou likely enjoyed gardening. She said, "In diversity there is beauty and there is strength." That is how the healthiest of ecosystems,...
Mulch Retains Moisture And Insulates
UNITED STATES—Nature is smart. It should be. It has been operating efficiently since the beginning of time. That is certainly longer than anyone has...
Saturation Of Soil Distresses Roots
UNITED STATES—Saturation of the soil should be a rare problem within the local chaparral climates. Water is a limited resource. That is why plants...
Mulch Is Imitation Of Nature
UNITED STATES—Every living thing in our gardens came from the wild somewhere. A few plants might be natives trying to adapt to synthetic landscapes....
Mulch Suits Autumn Quite Naturally
UNITED STATES—It is silly for us to think that we know more about gardening that the plants who live out in the garden full...
Planting Cool Season Cover Crops
UNITED STATES—Traditional horticultural technology that was so common in the orchards, that were likewise more common, was more practical than so much of what...
Pots And Pans Need Cleaning
UNITED STATES—This is getting to be cliché. “While they are dormant through winter," plants tolerate all sorts of abuse that would offend them at...
Sinking Millennium Tower Soil To Be Tested
SAN FRANCISCO—The drilling of three holes around the Millennium Tower, located at 301 Mission Street, began on Monday, September 26, by soil experts that...