sustainable gardening
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Why You Probably Don’t Need to Till Your Garden This Season
As the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, it’s time to start thinking about prepping your garden for winter. Conventional wisdom has it that tilling the soil — digging it up to loosen the structure and break up weeds, either by hand or with a power tiller — should be your first step. But…
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Don’t Throw Away Dead Leaves From Your Lawn (Do This Instead)
Raking leaves is a universally dreaded annual task, and for good reason — it’s hard, physical work that creates more hard, physical work. Once you’re done raking, you still have to find a way to get rid of all those leaves.
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How to Sheet Mulch Your Lawn Without Digging Up Your Grass
Switching up your yard usually means ripping up the grass, tilling, and fertilising the soil to prep for new vegetation, but why not just cover it up? Sheet mulching uses a simple form of composting to repurpose your lawn by revitalising the soil and building nutrients for new plants. Using cardboard, green compost, and mulch,…
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How to Pick Outdoor Plant Containers for Low-Maintenance Gardening
People who live somewhere with ample outdoor space may have the room to spread out and make an in-ground garden — instead of being limited to planters like city-dwellers — but gardening in containers comes with some benefits of its own. In fact, if you pick the right ones (and the right plants) it can…