The first few weeks of April are ideal for turning lawn or bare space into garden beds. You’ll have the soil ready just in time for prime planting season. One caveat, though. Never dig soil when it’s ...

Fresh mulch transforms a yard in a single afternoon. Garden beds suddenly look polished, weeds shrink back, and plants pop ...

For information on workshop schedules, visit www.LessIsMore.org/Workshops. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara County Public Works Department can help residents save ...

As the fall/winter growing season approaches, many gardeners are starting seedlings, pruning roses, prepping fall beds for cool-season veggies and annuals and anticipating luscious, sweet citrus.

Switching up your yard usually means ripping up the grass, tilling, and fertilizing the soil to prep for new vegetation, but why not just cover it up? Sheet mulching uses a simple form of composting ...

Q: What do I do about weeds before applying mulch? Several people have told me to kill them with Roundup first, wait until they die, dig them up, and then put the mulch down. Is there a way to avoid ...

Here’s a great little gardening secret: chips with everything Brought up on a steady diet of old-school gardening books, as we get into autumn I would once have been convinced that now was time to ...