LET’S TALK ABOUT plastic in the garden. Nursery pots and trays, plant markers, bagged goods and tarps, plastic netting, protective row-covers and even some tools — our green industry practically runs ...

Garden supply companies have been offering ways of reducing single-use plastics such as those six-packs that are sold everywhere. You can make your own soil blocks using a little metal press that ...

As the bitter cold temperatures continue, one building is serving as the saving grace for those who have nowhere else to turn.

Spring means it's time for gardeners to think about seedlings, those little baby plants all ready to get plunked into the ground. And a hands-on technique for growing them, called "soil blocking," is ...

I GENERALLY RECOMMEND that beginning home gardeners buy their vegetable transplants from a nursery or a local gardener’s plant sale. Germinating and tending delicate young plants can be both ...

A good gardener can start tomato seedlings in old yogurt tins - or anything else that will hold some soil mix. But most commonly gardeners buy plastic containers designed for starting seeds: each unit ...