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Knowing which vegetables to grow is sometimes half the battle when we are starting out as beginner gardeners. Use this list of easy to grow vegetables when deciding what your...

Mulching is ubiquitous with gardening. We at Doug Gardens believe that mulch should both help us as gardeners and contribute to the health of our soils. We believe that the...

Learn everything you need to know about worm castings, from what they are and how they benefit your garden, to where to find them and how to use them. 

You might think of soil as just dirt, but it's actually a bustling underground metropolis filled with all sorts of microorganisms, including the mighty fungi. These fungi form a super...

Recently, we were tagged in a post on Instagram that showed the following infographic from the Global Soil Partnership:    This infographic really struck a chord with us as we...

Isn’t fall the best? The changing seasons, cooler weather, garden harvests and all those pumpkin flavored things! We love fall because it's when the real party starts for gardeners that...

A friend of ours was wearing a t-shirt recently with a slogan on it that made us chuckle. In large, bold letters it read: “Soil is sick and tired of...