If you’re tired of flavorless mesclun mixes that spoil the day after you bring them home from the store, you’ll want to keep reading. Even if, like me, you’re a gardener who regularly grows lettuce ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tomatoes are a pain in the butt to grow. They are, let’s not deny it. And yet, I don’t think I’ve ever had a garden without tomatoes. Life would be so much easier if I were one of those people who ...

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 ...

You want the best garden soil possible, and sometimes that means using a little creativity when it comes to sourcing soil amendments. If you’ve been questioning how to use bone meal in the garden, ...

Everyone knows that compost is like black gold for your garden. Compost prevents soil erosion, it supplies your plants with necessary nutrients, it improves disease resistance and aids in water ...