When I started gardening I always got stuck at the beginning of every gardening season waiting for my friend to get out his rototiller and let me borrow it. In my mind, you couldn’t and shouldn’t ...

Q. I've had success in the past rototilling my vegetable garden, but now I hear it's not such a good idea. Can you advise me? A. Undisturbed soil teems with microorganisms and larger creatures such as ...

So retire your rototiller and save your spade for other tasks. The cardinal rule of no-till gardening is to keep a thick layer of mulch on your garden 365 days (or 366 days during a Leap Year).

In the old days the recommendation was to rototill your vegetable garden every spring to incorporate organic compost to improve the soil. If you're breaking ground for a new garden, it might be a good ...

The big thing to do right now is to clean up your plants as they die down and dry up. Some people like to rototill the debris back into the soil to provide organic matter to enrich it for next year.

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