Feed Your Soil and It Will Feed You: A Practical Guide to Soil Amendments
Learn how to amend your soil with compost, manure, and organic fertilizers. Practical timing tips, application rates, and how to avoid over-amending.

Learn how to amend your soil with compost, manure, and organic fertilizers. Practical timing tips, application rates, and how to avoid over-amending.

This article guides Pacific Northwest and Mountain-region gardeners through the key March tasks — finishing dormant spray and pruning before the window closes, starting seeds indoors based on your region, and direct-sowing cold-hardy crops outdoors if you're in Western Washington. It also covers hardening off early indoor starts and what's still too early to rush.

Start vegetables from seed successfully with our step-by-step guide. Learn proper timing, light requirements, transplanting tips, and how to prevent damping off disease.

Grow fresh vegetables all winter! Discover 12 cold-hardy crops for Pacific Northwest & Mountain climates, plus planting schedules, frost protection tips & regional timing.