Tilling has both benefits and drawbacks when it comes to your soil. So should you till or not when preparing and maintaining your garden? That decision depends on several factors, and no one answer ...

“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, ...

Can a no-till garden really grow healthier plants with less effort? In this video, we put the no-till gardening method to the test and take a closer look at how it stacks up against traditional ...

With recent warm and sunny days we are hankering to get outside and into the garden, even though it is still February. Among decisions of readying the garden are whether or not to till the soil.

Edward H. Faulkner, author of the 1943 agricultural book "Plowman's Folly," is credited with the creation of no-till farming. The definition of “properly managed” no-till has evolved and is a source ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- One thing about growing up here in the Deep South: We know how to dig holes. We're really good at digging holes for ourselves, holes so ambitious and deep we have a hard time getting ...

A volunteer with AmeriCorps tills the garden at Sisters of the Holy Family on Thursday, August 2, 2012. Several volunteers till and grow vegetables for the Sisters. (David Grunfeld, NOLA.com|The Times ...

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 ...

Few of us can imagine gardening without the labor of digging. It seems, after all, that this is what you should do, what everyone always does and always has done to make a garden grow. The idea of not ...