On May 28, Bill Van Tine will present the May parks program on how to grow your summer garden without dirt using a technique called hydroponics. The program begins at 6 p.m. at the Otis Park Bath ...

When you think of growing fruits and vegetables, you probably think about putting plants in the ground or into pots. However, you don’t always need “dirt” to grow plants. In a hydroponic system, soil ...

Just about everybody agrees that raised beds are the way to grow vegetables in a home garden, especially when your alleged “soil” is lousy clay or construction fill. Raised beds elevate plants up and ...

The caveat is what type of soil you have. To have a dryland garden, you need deep soil with good water-holding characteristics. Gardening without irrigation works in suitable soils because many ...