Some vegetables thrive in winter, giving you produce throughout the season - you just need to know the correct varieties to ...

How much will my garden grow? The internet is full of extensive and contradictory information about gardening, and predicting how much food I’ll grow is really more speculation than anything else.

This video gives an overview of my allotment vegetable garden which is set central in my backyard. It covers raised bed gardening, what I'm growing now, and the overall set-up. The intent is to make ...

August is an interesting and busy time in a vegetable garden, as many readers will no doubt be well aware. Most of your attention is likely to be on harvesting and tending the summer crops. For most ...

Join me for a full garden tour as autumn sets in and the vegetable garden flourishes with produce and potential. I will share ...

“There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.” This extremely good advice comes from Czech playwright Karel Capek’s charming 1929 book The Gardener’s Year.

I didn’t plant my vegetable garden to save money. In fact, there were expenses: the raised beds, the planting soil, extending the watering system, a simple wire fence to keep the deer out, and of ...

Growing your own herbs and veggies is a great way to eat smart by controlling what goes on your dinner table. Since you get to decide what kind of soil mix, fertilizer, compost, pest control, etc. to ...

Regrowing vegetables from kitchen scraps can sound like a gimmick. But I’ve found that the more I look to my kitchen as a seed and plant catalogue, the more varied my vegetable garden becomes. In many ...

I remember discussing being a horticulturist with a group of other horticulturists. One of the other horticulturist stated, “Horticulture is like sex, anyone who does it, thinks that they are an ...

The cold, wet weather we experienced this spring was not what I was expecting after last year’s awful heat wave. While the flowers in my garden have been spectacular thanks to all of the rain, my ...

I think I’ll come out ahead financially. Before we get any further, I’ll address one common gripe I get: “Not everything is meant to save money.” There’s something special about sitting in the yard or ...