Dreaming of harvesting fresh vegetables from your own garden but limited by a small balcony, patio, or yard? Container gardening is the perfect solution (you can also try a vertical gardening or ...

Smiling through the overwhelm of the huge late-season harvest, gardeners often deploy the genial phrase, “dealing with abundance.” Although mounds of produce is a gift like no other, it comes with a ...

Just like growing your own food, saving your own seed is another great way to ensure you are in control of your own food supply — from planting a tiny seed to harvesting your own seeds. Saving seeds ...

If you can't bring your terra-cotta pots all the way inside for winter, you can still keep them safe from cold weather damage. Here are six tricks to try.

My very large catalpa tree was had all its leaves eaten by caterpillars. Will it be able to recover or is it likely to die? What can I do to prevent this in the future? Your tree, especially given its ...

Walk into any grocery store, or better yet, your local farmers’ market this time of year, and you’ll likely see bins overflowing with seasonal squash in dozens of colors, shapes and sizes. Knowing the ...

Carrie Schmidt-de la Fuente, a reference librarian at the Main Library, works consistently to procure donations in the community and keep the library stocked. All of the seed libraries operate on the ...

But, what about also making use of commonly tossed parts of plants, like by eating the leaves of your summer or winter squash plants?If growing your own veggie garden, you can get a whole lot more ...

If you want the freshest local ingredients of the season, a farmers' market is the way to go. Not only can you pick up produce at its absolute prime, but you can also chat with the people who grew it ...

These eye-catching fall containers use hardy kale and cabbage to add bold color and texture for low-effort, high-impact porch decor. Bonus: They last well into spring.

Order Seeds Early One of the most important tips for growing plants from seed has to do with timing. Seed companies get busy in winter and early spring as they fill orders on a first-come, first-serve ...