We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's common for would-be gardeners to get discouraged from starting a garden for a variety of reasons, ending up staring wistfully at endless ...

Try any of these 10 vertical gardening methods to get your garden growing up! This saves space and helps increase your harvest.

Organic gardening is on everyone's agenda, but have you ever heard of biodynamic gardening? This holistic practice takes natural planting one step further, and it can do wonders for the flowers, ...

So you’ve decided to start a home garden. You’ve pored over seed catalogs to pick out which plants you want to grow and you’ve read some books to learn more about home gardening. But there’s one big ...

No matter how established your garden is or how diligent you are about regularly pulling weeds from your garden beds, it seems like you can never quite eradicate these tenacious yet unwanted plants.

In school, most people learned that gardening involved planting a seed in soil, making sure it had the right amount of water and sunlight, and watching it grow. Of course, there’s a lot more to it ...

Urban-gardening advocate and community activist Ron Finley is in the middle of a sun-soaked pool at his office in south Central Los Angeles, but he isn’t swimming. Instead, he’s sitting at a table ...

Gardening is a very personal hobby. All home gardeners hold some key to growing fruits and vegetables that works well for them, but may not be best for others. I grew up with the traditional method of ...

“Be ye not afraid of doing something your venerable ancestors did, for the benefits to your aching back may be many” (Author anonymous) We all know that gardening involves a lot of hard work: hoeing, ...

With the arrival of spring, you might be thinking of starting a garden. There’s no shortage of gardening methods, but if you’re interested in starting a garden to last, try your hand at permaculture.

The author’s garden midway through the growing season, full of vegetables and pest-repelling flowers. How long does cardboard take to decompose? Find answers to using a cardboard weed barrier in your ...

My friend says my garden and landscape would grow better if I would practice organic gardening methods. You have written about both approaches in your columns. What do you recommend? Since my readers ...