Poinsettias are wildly popular around the holidays. If you're gifted one or want to liven up your home with a seasonal plant, ...

Pear trees require fertilizer when they are young and when the soil lacks essential nutrients. For young trees, a balanced ...

Ever think about growing your own orange tree? This time-lapse shows you how an orange tree was growing from a fresh seed to a young plant. We extracted the orange seed from a fresh store-bought fruit ...

You can plant an olive pit and grow an olive tree either indoors or outside. Use an olive pit from an organic tree, rather than from a jar of olives you got at the store. Be patient! It can take years ...

From plans for spring harvest to spacing tips to planting basics, there’s a steady stream of tasks to do and things to look ...

In this video, I give you 5 reasons why lemons are the best fruit tree to grow in containers or pots. Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in se Queensland Australia ...

Yes, you can grow fruits like strawberries, bananas, and grapes even if you don't have a yard - and the best part is you can ...

An abundance of varieties, each with a different texture, taste and colour, is available to plant in even the smallest garden ...

Every yard needs a tree. All the better if it’s a native species of tree, one that will support native bees, butterflies and other wildlife. “Fall is a great time for tree planting,” said Spencer ...

One of the most popular houseplants today is the fiddle leaf fig (Ficus lyrata). Yet this arboreal gem is also a candidate ...

Depending on how big, you can still make use of it. Summer squash, including zucchini, develop hard seeds fairly quickly, ...

The backyards of ordinary Tasmanians are becoming urban climate refuges for a "biobank" of alpine plants threatened by ...