Strawberries don’t need a backyard to thrive. With just sun, soil and a little attention, they grow just as well in raised beds as they do in buckets on a balcony. This makes them a perfect pick for ...

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Convenient, plant-friendly, and more accessible too, raised garden beds are a worthwhile investment for home gardeners. Put simply, "A raised garden bed is a planting bed that has been raised a few ...

Everyone wants a lush, blooming garden—but not everyone has the space to dedicate to in-ground garden beds. Whether you're just starting to flex your green thumb or are dealing with tight lawn ...

Have you struggled with gardening directly in the soil of your front or backyards? You’re not alone. While Sonoma County soil is ripe with nutrients that enable ...

You don’t need a sprawling lawn to be a gardener. Any outdoor space — be it a balcony or small patch of grass — can be home to a raised garden bed. Though useful for all gardeners, they’re especially ...

I know I've blogged mainly about perennials in our garden. What I've failed to tell you much about are our raised vegetable beds. Prior to the raised beds, we grew our herbs, vegetables and fruits in ...

One of the things that I have wanted to work on for the past couple of years is adding irrigation to my main garden so that I ...