Category Gardening

Bright yellow sunflowers are the poster flower of summer. Sunflowers are native to North America, but they are very often associated with […]

It’s August! Your vegetable garden is really asserting itself, your flower beds are still full of color, and your lawn, like the […]

Spinach, a super–cold-hardy vegetable, is a tender-leafed crop that can be planted in very early spring, as well as in fall and […]

Zinnias are a gift from Mexico but gardeners everywhere can easily grow them. They are warm season annual flowers that bloom with […]

August is an ideal time to plant seeds for a second gardening season that can be as productive as your major early […]

Peas are one of the first crops we plant. Plant as soon as the ground can be worked—even if snow falls after […]

If flowering bulbs are one of nature’s mysteries, watching the claw-like tuber of a ranunculus produce three dozen rosette-shaped flowers must be […]

Have you ever been gardening and noticed some hideous reddish, brown bugs dining on your vegetables, or squirming through your soil? These […]

Ever wondered how to grow eggplant? These warm-weather vegetables are grown as annuals but are actually perennials. Also known as aubergine, eggplants […]

Euphorbia is a very large genus of plants with more than 2,000 species. About 1,200 of them are succulents, some with bizarre […]

Inside every container garden there’s an epic battle being waged – even if it is happening on a scale that only plants […]

Vegetable gardens range in size from plant containers (mini-gardens) all the way to fields of an acre or more (maxigardens). What makes […]