Fall leaves are like a dividend you can invest back into your soil as compost and mulch. Depending on your outlook on life, the leaf fall in autumn can either be a nuisance or a blessing. It’s a ...

Mow your lawn: Continue mowing your lawn into the fall, but make sure to avoid cutting more than one-third of the grass blade ...

The soil in garden beds settles over time and loses nutrients. Add new soil to your garden beds each year to keep them topped ...

Composting takes time and work if you want to add it to your garden as soil enrichment. While it can be a great way to boost and enrich the soil in your garden naturally, it can take months for the ...

Fall is on the horizon and can be the ideal time to enjoy planting and cultivating a bounty of seasonal vegetables, herbs and ...

Soil tests are essential to set your plants up for success - they'll tell you exactly how to amend your soil for the best growth. Here's the best time for one.

Oats, winter wheat, cereal rye, and barley are all cool-season soil-feeding cover crops. Their dense growth rate covers soil ...

Now that we have experienced the first frost of the season, and the growing season for most garden and home landscape plants has come to an end, we as gardeners tend to start thinking about things we ...

As the combines start rolling across the country farmers are focused on taking the crops off the land. However, it’s a great time for farmers to also be thinking about planting cover crops to help ...

Josh Putman, Field Crops and Forage Specialist with the SWNY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Program, shares how fall lime application can help adjust acidic soil pH in preparation for the 2021 ...