5 Great Good-Things-to-Grow Gifts for Mom Raised bed backyard garden with flowers, veggies, and herbs. Mother’s Day is coming up quickly (just like her garden!) and if you still haven’t found the right gift, you’re in luck! We’re here to help make this the best...
Most of us look forward to spring with good reason: longer days and warm temperatures mean finally being able to ditch onerous winter outerwear and enjoy the outdoors again. Year in year out, we get through winter patiently (some of us more than others), cheered...
Newly minted (ha! Get it?) vegetable gardeners can be taken by surprise when their beautiful lettuce plants they’ve been enjoying since the beginning of the season start sending up flower stalks all of the sudden, and go to seed. When this happens, the heretofore...
Except perhaps for those who reside in the northernmost reaches of the country, gardeners welcome the New Year’s lengthening days in eager anticipation of the spring planting season. While spring doesn’t officially start until March 20 in the Northern Hemisphere, if...
It’s never too soon to start thinking about the spring planting season. Depending on the region of the country where you live, it may only be a matter of months before you can start growing vegetable plants indoors from seed for harvest next summer. In the meantime,...
Introduction to Gardening: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The world of gardening can be intimidating to those of you who haven’t yet tried to grow anything, or who may have dabbled in growing plants but failed. While there’s a seemingly endless amount of gardening...