For instance, New York opened up applications for free soil testing earlier this year for people who either have a community garden or grow food for communities. Even if your state doesn’t offer ...

Every fall, millions of leaves blanket our yards. We rake them and take it to the curb. but for one local business, these ...

Could you please enlighten me on ... place mulch around the plants. If this is this something you do, what materials do you use and when do you apply them? I’m hoping for a better garden next ...

Adding fresh or composted manure to your flower, herb, or vegetable beds is one of the best ways to improve your soil and grow an organic garden on the cheap. Manure contains nitrogen, potassium ...

The conventional way that gardeners solve bad-soil trouble is by adding organic ... uses fall-planted cover crops in his home vegetable garden. “Cover crops are typically planted from late ...

ATLANTA — The Rockdale County soil and water supervisor died on October ... Johnson died at Grady Memorial Hospital. The ME said that due to the circumstances of the incident, the Georgia ...

Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of the consumer genetic testing company 23andMe (ME), is cautiously optimistic about the firm’s future, a month after its entire board resigned on the same day.

What’s actively growing in your vegetable garden in the middle of October ... with seasonable daytime temperatures and plentiful soil moisture. Even during a fall, like this year, when we ...

This weekend's yard jobs include "cleaning up" some of the landscape, building a compost pile, and saying goodbye to the sale ...

A 27-year-old New Hampshire man was killed Wednesday in an explosion at a mulch supply company where he worked. Zachary Spooner of Windsor, N.H., was killed in the blast, which happened around 2 p ...

DirecTV is in advanced talks to acquire its satellite-TV rival Dish, people familiar with the matter said, in a deal that could create one of the country’s largest pay-TV distributors after ...