Discover new ways to maximize your garden space in Building Projects for Backyard Farmers and Home Gardeners (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2012) by Chris Gleason. Plans for trellises, raised beds and ...

Higher workrates and more precision are the order of the day for the latest potato planters. Peter Hill looks at the latest advances. Grimme is evaluating a new planter that reflects both those themes ...

In the category of “Use What You Have,” I decided to try an experiment in reusing and recycling. When I first started building my garden and raised beds, I ordered several bulk bags of garden loam and ...

Belt-fed potato planters have been around for years and have a loyal following. But interest is once more growing, thanks to the extra output such machines can offer time-stretched growers. Nick Fone ...

Instead of filling large planters with potting mix, use one of these materials to take up space at the bottom of the planter.

There are many reasons not to grow potatoes: all that sprouting, ­digging, planting, earthing up, more ­digging at harvest, and the result? Slug-riddled, sickly spuds when you could have bought ...