While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...

Even amid the highly-prevalent chemical fertilisers use over the decades, the cultivators of hill vegetables like potato, carrot, cabbage and cauliflower still firmly feel that cow-manure is still ...

Many landscape plants can benefit greatly from amended soil. Our native sandy soil drains readily and doesn’t do so well with holding on to soil nutrients and water. But you can produce your own ...