Gardening potatoes is a new challenge to take on! Here are some tips for growing potatoes in your home garden.

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The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function. Such as not plowing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as cover crops. Surprisingly, it applies to both ...

A farmer in southeastern Minnesota is hopeful cover crops will help him return to spring fieldwork sooner following recent rains. Ed McNamara of Goodhue says cover crops dry the soil out. “It ...

Art Gudas of Kewanna has been using cover crops to improve the soil of his fields since about 2011. He is shown with cover ...

Robertson dewflower (Drosanthemum micans) is my favorite low-growing, flowering succulent. And whatever is in second place is ...

The word “dust bowl” conjures images of cracked earth, swirling clouds of dry soil, and a haunting silence where life once ...

Hold your trowels, folks. It’s still too cold out there to plant many things and the long-range weather forecast seems to be trending colder this year.

Shawn Catherwood is a farmer in southeast Saskatchewan and the founder and CEO of Spur Line Crop Solutions. He’s looking for ways to cut expenses this year but also keeping his eye on soil health.

Nitrogen surrounds us, but understanding how it can be both a friend in agriculture and a foe in water was among the ...

Since nitrous oxide is emitted into the air when there is excess nitrogen in the ground, keeping plants growing year-round can limit emissions. Plants take up nitrate (NO₃) and ammonium (NH₄), meaning ...

Plant corn with companion plants, also known as intercropping to grow a bountiful edible garden. Companion planting can ...