What is the single most basic thing you could do to be a successful gardener? There is nothing you could do in your garden that would be more helpful than applying organic matter in and on your soil.

Organic gardening is all about growing plants without synthetic chemicals. That means no man-made fertilizers, no lab-made pesticides, and no weird additives in the soil. Instead, it’s all done using ...

I had what one would call classical training in gardening. If you started as a child, you did too. By classical, I mean you learned to do things the way your parents did in the garden. In my case, my ...