The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Using garden soil instead of potting soil. Garden soil is an amendment mixed with native soil for use in the ground. It ...

The best potting soil for indoor plants provides the nutrients needed for the plant to thrive. After hours of research, see ...

When I started gardening I was taught that the best way to prepare a garden bed for flowers or vegetables was to “double dig.

Composting for a vegetable garden by using the trench method has a lot of advantages. It is also one of the easiest ways to ...

Do you have piles of old potting soil sitting in your garden shed, taking up space and seemingly destined for the trash?

Cleaning up your vegetable garden at the end of the season goes a long way toward avoiding pest and disease problems next ...

There is a lot to learn from the long, venerable tradition of gardening in Japan, a point made in last week’s Real Dirt, ...

You’ve probably read you should remove and dispose of insect pest-infected and diseased plant material to reduce these ...

Knowing the ins and outs of looking after your garden can be hard at the best of time, so it is important to spot these eight ...

• Plant container-grown trees and shrubs this month. Fall is generally the best time to plant. At this time, the plants have ...

Surprisingly, your garden desperately wants the same kind of self help, and providing that help to your soil is as easy as doing a little detective work this fall. It's easy to think of soil as ...