At bottom, gardening is all about dirt — its care and feeding, its microbes and fungi, bacteria and earthworms. Science has gradually recognized that the soil’s vibrant but delicate food web must be ...
“Be ye not afraid of doing something your venerable ancestors did, for the benefits to your aching back may be many” (Author anonymous) We all know that gardening involves a lot of hard work: hoeing, ...
IDAHO FALLS (AP) | This will be Gordon Gallup's 30th season of no-till planting on his 3,000-acre Ririe farm. Gallup, who grows wheat, barley and alfalfa, said using no-till methods has helped him ...
While the practice of no-till gardening is not new, information has traditionally centered on agricultural field crops. Now, home gardeners are catching on. “The concept of no-till has been around for ...
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Woman Explains How Switching to a “No-Till” Method Transformed Her Garden in the Best Way Possible.
Not only does it kill everything in the soil it ruins the soil structure causing a shift in the aggregate that does not allow for proper water absorption and risks runoff, and limits the space for ...
Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...
You don’t need a ton of rainfall to grow wheat, but you still need some. Over the past 40 years, Central Washington farmer Mike Nichols and his family have learned to adapt to an unusually dry climate ...
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Gardener shares ancient technique to prepare garden for changing seasons: 'Keep pushing on your ... journey'
Some of the best home gardening results come from techniques humans have embraced for centuries, sometimes millennia. TikToker Adrienne S (@essenceofadrienne) embraces the "no-till" gardening method ...
HAMPTON, Iowa — Long-time Practical Farmers of Iowa members Doug Alert and Margaret Smith have looked at organic no-till planting into cover crops, a system pioneered by Jeff Moyer at the Rodale ...
To till or not to till? That is the question. Looking over fields prior to planting, a Shakespeare-in-overalls might also wonder: “Whether ‘tis nobler to till and suffer the slings and arrows of soil ...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Changing 60 years of farming one way to try the no-till method on his fields doesn't give Marshall wheat grower Boyd Cline second thoughts, but it does give him the willies."I'm not ...
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