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Mulching is one of the best things you can do for your garden. A generous layer of mulch over the soil surface will suppress weeds, retain moisture, and provide and soil enrichment as it decomposes. Mulch also helps protect the soil from erosion, moderates the soil temperature, and makes the garden look neat and tidy. Mulching has some disadvantages as well. It can smother your plants, tie up nutrients, add unwanted chemicals, grow fungus, and slow water penetration.

20 Garden Mulching Tips from Seasoned Growers

The goal of succession planting is to make the most of your garden space and keep the beds growing and producing fresh harvests.

3 Succession Planting Tips to Maximize Your Harvest

Mulch is any type of material that layered on the surface of the soil. Mulching your garden beds not only helps suppress weeds, it also prevents soil erosion and moderates soil-temperature fluctuations.

5 Ways Organic Mulch Helps Your Vegetable Garden

The mild onion flavor of chive blossom vinegar is combined with honey, Dijon mustard, and fresh chopped chives. Toss this flavorful vinaigrette salad dressing with baby greens.

Mason Jar Chive Vinaigrette Recipe

Make your own chive blossom vinegar. See how easy it is to infuse vinegar with a subtle onion essence and a purple blush of color.

Chive Blossom Vinegar Infusion

Raspberry leaf tea is delicious and resembles a light, green tea without the caffeine. See how to collect and dry red raspberry leaves for tea.

How to Harvest & Preserve Red Raspberry Leaf Tea

Freshly harvested onions on a garden bench.

Harvesting, Curing, and Storing Onions

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Adding to Our Flock of Backyard Chickens

young pepper and tomato seedlings on a table outside in the shade

How to Harden Off Seedlings

close up of a NZ spinach plant in the garden

Growing New Zealand Spinach

photo if a crate with onions, potatoes, squash, and carrots

9 Crops to Grow for Food Storage

If you enjoy eating fresh salsa in the summer, growing a salsa garden will provide you with the fresh ingredients you need to whip up salsa at a moments notice. See how to plant a salsa garden.

How to Grow a Salsa Garden