Before going outside and getting right into setting up your garden soil, it’s best to spend a little time planning the garden layout. After all, a good plan can help in making everything come together ...

Learning how to plan and plant a vegetable garden is easy, once you know a little bit about the needs of various vegetables and how to annually rotate what you grow to improve the soil nutrients.

It is April, and once the soil dries out and the warmer weather comes back, vegetable gardeners will be out working the soil and planting cool-season vegetables. Some of you are also tending to ...

How’s your fall planting going? This is our best planting time of the year for everything from trees to leafy greens to wildflower seeds. Do your homework, plan your schedule, then get gardening! Find ...

Cutting gardens are trendy again as a new generation embraces the idea of growing free bouquets. If you’re thinking of giving the style a try this growing season, the National Garden Bureau offers ...

In “Your Natural Garden,” Kelly D. Norris explains how to tend a garden that fosters insects and wildlife. The Olympian Winter storms are for winter reading, and December is a great month to forget ...

Sensory gardens, previously used for therapeutic purposes, are now recognized for their general well-being benefits. Home gardeners can create sensory areas by incorporating plants and features that ...

Find out what it would look like to fully celebrate the wildly personal beauty of your garden “dialed to the max.” Dale Sievert, a moss collector since 2006, drives his moss-as-garden-signature point ...

The arrival of spring brings joy, and a challenge: finding solutions to increasingly erratic weather. The arrival of spring brings joy, and a challenge: finding solutions to increasingly erratic ...

Sonoma County spans over 1,600 square miles, a mosaic of coastal mists, sun-soaked valleys, and steep, rugged hills. Here, microclimates shift from fog-laden mornings to parched afternoons. Winter ...

Last summer in Louisiana, we were affected by a heat wave that spread across the southern tier of the U.S. This heat wave was caused by a persistent, strong ridge of high pressure in the upper ...