This fall, the city of Albert Lea is encouraging residents to try some natural ways of managing yard waste right at home.

The change in season has local farmers planting fall crops, and their winter soil preparation methods are based on personal experience — plus how much work they want to do. Farmers at the Farmers’ ...

Start by putting fall leaves to work in the garden. Use your mower with the bag attached to shred and collect fall leaves.

Fall is a great time to improve your soil for next year’s garden. Many of the resources needed are readily available and many ...

Discoloration, thinning out, diseases, and excessive weeds are important signs that you need to replace your mulch. Pest issues and fungal growth also indicate it’s time for a refresh. Here’s a closer ...

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 ...

Dreading your garden feeling barren and lifeless during the cold weather months? This plant is cold-hardy and visually striking, with versatile culinary uses.

For children to love the earth, they need to know the earth. To know the earth, they need to experience the earth.” Daniel ...

This is always a bittersweet time of the year for me. Gardening is one of my favorite activities during the summer, but in my ...

August is the hottest month in the gardens. Vegetable and flower gardeners relish in the bounty the heat and monsoon rain ...

Shallots are an easy-to-grow cool-season vegetable. With a little attention to detail, you can grow and harvest enough ...

Just because the weather is cooler doesn’t mean weeds have stopped growing — they’re still out there! Mulch blocks sunlight ...