I love gardening. But I like sitting on the porch admiring my garden a whole heck of a lot more, especially when the mercury starts to climb. As summer cranks up the heat and turns off the tap, ...

Creating new garden beds doesn’t require you to dig up the turf and turn over the soil. That is, most certainly, the hardest way to do it. Cutting out the sod and breaking up the soil with a tiller is ...

I’ve been eating mini cucumbers from the grocery store all winter long. But I ate my very first homegrown cucumber of the season the other day, and it stopped me in my tracks. Standing there in my ...

If asked to sum up zucchini in one word, I would say “prolific.” It seems as though once it takes off, it doesn’t stop until that first frost at the end of the season. And no matter how much you love ...

I have two indoor cats whose favorite TV show is watching the bird feeders right outside the dining room window. I don’t know who enjoys watching the birds more, me or them, so we keep our feeders up ...

Whenever I’m wandering through the woods, I always have a basket or a mesh bag with me. There’s rarely a time when the forest doesn’t provide me with some treat to eat or useful objects. There’s an ...

Chances are good that you found this article because you are thinking about planting cucumbers in your garden – and wish nothing but the best for their, and your, success. Or perhaps these companions ...

While bees and their remarkable raw honey generally get a lot of buzzingly good press, we often lose sight of the other amazing gifts they have to offer. Beeswax is an age-old, renewable material that ...

Are your garden harvests smaller than you dreamed of? Have you come to the realization that your garden may be in a less than an ideal location? Think again. You may be trying to grow the wrong ...

From sun up to sun down, bees are doing important work for the health and safety of the hive. Foraging bees will travel up to 5 miles from the colony to gather up pollen for hungry baby bees back at ...

Lovage (Levisticum officinale) is a hardy perennial herb native to the Mediterranean. As part of the Apiacaea family, it is closely related to carrot, celery, and parsley. This culinary and medicinal ...