Ridge farming is effective across various soil types: it improves water retention in sandy soils and enhances drainage and ...

Strawberries are a summertime favorite, but growing them efficiently and sustainably can be tricky. At Tenth Street Orchard, ...

Do You Need to Mulch Every Year? No, you don’t have to mulch every year, but doing so can benefit your garden. Choosing to mulch isn’t a one-size-fits-all task and depends upon several factors.

Then, all you need to do is spread a thin and loose layer of straw mulch beneath the strawberries but leave a little space around the base of the plant.

Hundreds of straw bales have been arranged in a maze layout, like last year's event (pictured) Four sisters have created a children's playground and maze at their Oxfordshire farm using 300 bales ...

Before it gained popularity as mulch, pine straw was used in roads, seen here in DeLand circa 1900. The needles were lightweight, easy to transport and formed tight meshes, minimizing erosion.

Pine straw remains loose and friable and does not form a top crust like grass clippings, leaves, and some other mulches. This looser mulch allows water to infiltrate readily into the soil for ...

A living mulch based on the perennial crop lucerne is allowing Danish farmer and agronomist Frederik Larsen to harvest more sunlight and produce two crops ...