While some plants make great living mulch, others work better for cut-and-drop mulching. This pretty purple-flowering plant ...

FALL IS ALWAYS a good time to assess the recent growing season and make notes to your future self about garden gains, losses and the occasional horticultural mishap. For instance, do not plant comfrey ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Comfrey earned its “invasive weed” reputation from one variety that spreads aggressively by seed, but the type most gardeners actually grow for fertilizer, a sterile hybrid called Bocking 14, doesn’t ...

This spring I was hauling five gallon buckets of fertilizer down the Buckhorn Mountain when a skunk ran out in front of me. I hit the brakes hard rather than hit the skunk, the guardrail or a tree.