Did you know that you don't have to throw away all the fallen leaves in your yard? Leaves are a valuable source of nutrients ...

Did you know the microbes in your compost pile is still active in the dead of winter? They will be if you take certain steps to get ready for cold weather.

It’s easy to compost your fallen leaves and easier still to keep them in your garden beds, where they’ll enrich the soil and ...

Remember to keep a gardening journal. Take pictures and draw diagrams for next year. Jot down what worked and what did not.

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

A shovel full of compost about to be added to a raised garden - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock So many different types of kitchen scraps can be reused in your garden as a natural fertilizer, and ...

It doesn’t take a lot of time or investment to create worm bins filled with red wigglers that will break down food scraps into rich compost for the garden. There’s a yardstick among gardeners that ...

The time to plant fall vegetable crops is just around the corner, which often poses a dilemma for gardeners. They’ve diligently worked their soil, planted crops, and meticulously cared for their ...

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...