This week's gardening column explains when to prune roses, butterfly bushes, and walnut trees, plus the benefits of no-till gardening.

That rototiller you fire up every spring isn’t preparing your soil for a great season. It’s quietly dismantling it. According to soil scientists and experienced growers, tilling is one of the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rolleen Annie and Rowena Ho K/Getty Images Starting a garden involves a lot of prep work before you can really get to the good ...

While the practice of no-till gardening is not new, information has traditionally centered on agricultural field crops. Now, home gardeners are catching on. “The concept of no-till has been around for ...

In the wild areas on our planet, trees, bushes and grasses grow on ground that has continual additions of new layers of dead and dying plant matter. Leaves fall from trees and shrubs, grasses dry in ...

There's nothing new about no-till gardening; it's been around for thousands of years. But modern-day gardeners are seeing a boom in popularity for the no-till approach to home gardening, especially ...

Can a no-till garden really grow healthier plants with less effort? In this video, we put the no-till gardening method to the test and take a closer look at how it stacks up against traditional ...

Starting a no till vegetable garden is an exciting first step toward healthier soil and sustainable gardening. Follow the ...

“Be ye not afraid of doing something your venerable ancestors did, for the benefits to your aching back may be many” (Author anonymous) We all know that gardening involves a lot of hard work: hoeing, ...

If planning to put in a new garden next spring, you might not need to wait until spring. Consider starting site preparation now with a no-till option. Research shows that tillage damages soil ...

Benefits of no-till gardening Soil aggregates are important because their variation in size creates large and small pore spaces in the soil, which are used as pathways for water, oxygen and plant ...

The most effective gardening advice available right now was written before your great-grandmother was born. Gardeners who’ve gone back to the methods in the Old Farmer’s Almanac, which was first ...