What does the new EPA warning about PFAS-laden sludge in fertilizer mean for home gardeners? Here’s what you need to know.

There's a lot of confusion over whether plant food is the same thing as fertilizer. Is there a difference? Let's find out.

A few hours each week spent outdoors nurturing fruits, flowers and vegetables can provide exercise, stress reduction, vitamin D and a better diet.

Are you discouraged about areas in your yard or flower beds that just don’t seem to be able to grow anything? You may have ...

For years and years it has been a common garden practice to apply steer manure to your lawn as a fertilizer. But as a fertilizer, steer manure is not a ...

By Bruce Spangenberg While lawn care maintenance schedules are blank in January, now is a wonderful time to plan how to ...

Any time organic matter is added to the soil, plants will benefit.Winter months are a good time to start improving garden soil fertility because most plants are ...

To grow sweet tangerines, they need a minimum of six to eight hours of direct sunlight every day. By placing your containers ...

garden, and landscape fertilizer materials. Once received, the turnaround time for processing samples is 3 working days. Several different tests are offered by the University of Massachusetts lab, ...

Layering, or “top dressing,” garden soil with 2 inches of compost will add nutrients, often reducing or even eliminating the ...