The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Give your crops a timely midseason boost with side dressing—a simple technique that can strengthen growth, support flowering and fruiting, and increase yields. Learn when to feed, which materials to choose, and how to apply them safely without burning plants or encouraging excess foliage.
Lush zucchini leaves but barely any squash? Learn how to balance fertilizer, limit excess nitrogen, improve pollination, and encourage stronger flowering and fruit set for a more abundant harvest.
Blood meal can give nitrogen-hungry leafy greens a fast boost—but it isn’t right for every garden bed. Learn when it supports healthy growth, when it can hurt roots or fruit production, and how to use it safely.
Give your elephant garlic the best start with slightly acidic, well-drained soil enriched with compost and tailored by a soil test. Learn when to amend, plant, mulch, rotate crops, and harvest for healthy plants and impressively large, flavorful bulbs.