Are you discouraged about areas in your yard or flower beds that just don’t seem to be able to grow anything? You may have ...

Sprinkling wood ashes around the base of plants can deter pests like slugs and snails due to their abrasive nature.

Learn More › If you’re planning a new garden, you should start with good soil. After all, soil is the medium of life for ...

Where were the tomatoes planted last year? Was it this spot? Learn about the importance of crop rotation with your vegetable garden.

A successful spring garden begins well before the first blooms of the season. Winter, often regarded as the dormant period for plants, offers the perfect opportunity to prepare garden beds ...

Removing weeds as soon as they appear, before their roots fully anchor into the soil, is best for the garden, as well as your ...

Additionally, the processes of erosion and deposition act to redistribute soil carbon according to the topography of the landscape, with low-lying areas such as floodplains often having increased ...

While I find do-it-yourself soil fertility test kits available in stores to be wildly inaccurate, such kits are relatively accurate when testing for pH. You can also purchase a pH meter at any garden ...

Anna Wik is a registered professional landscape architect in Delaware and Pennsylvania and an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware. She has ...

Any time organic matter is added to the soil, plants will benefit.Winter months are a good time to start improving garden soil fertility because most plants are ...

Recent graduates from our department are in a broad spectrum of careers including positions as landscape architects and designers, laboratory technicians, soil scientists, graduate and post-graduate ...