After losing a crop of cherries to hungry birds, an orchardist makes plans to defend his next crop of ripening fruit with protective bird netting.
Stinging nettles are often regarded as pesky weeds, but learn to recognize and harvest the plant for their nutritional and medicinal value!
Susan Young’s "Growing Beans" explores the reasons to grow and eat more beans, and provides a comprehensive guide for doing so.
Nothing ruins porch or patio time like nuisance flies, so discourage bugs by growing plenty of these bug-repelling patio plants around your outdoor space.
With inflation and income concerns affecting everyone, it's a great time to start a vegetable garden to increase food security. Here's how to start.
For a quick idea of your soil composition and necessary amendments, try this easy, at-home test of your three basic soil elements.
Soilless growing mixes may be made with more regionally-sourced ingredients, new processing techniques over next few years.
In this excerpt from The Healing Garden by Juliet Blankespoor, the author covers a handful of options for growing herbs in containers.
Whether you rent in the big city or live on a tiny lot in town, growing food and flowers is still within reach with guidance from The Urban Garden.
In this excerpt from Dani Baker’s new book, "Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape," you can learn how to plant, transplant and prune trees.
Potting up your young tomatoes and preventing them from becoming rootbound gives them a great head start. Here's how to transplant tomato plants.
Collect and preserve pretty blooms, interesting leaves and fragrant herbs for future gifts and craft projects with this DIY plant press project.
