Seed tape can be a handy tool for the gardener, but there are a few downsides to it. This product gets rid of them and makes ...

After years of searching I found the perfect mulch for my garden - pine flakes. Let me show you why it's the best mulch.

If you just can't get the hang of growing lavender, here are a few alternatives with similar sun and soil requirements.

There's some conflicting advice floating around about the best way to start zucchini and summer squash in the garden. Let's ...

The nation's 250th birthday is this Independence Day. Plant a patriotic semiquincentennial flower garden with these flowers.

There’s a saying in gardening that goes like this: “We prune for a reason, not for a season.” This means that there are no set times to prune plants, only good reasons to do so. Why am I mentioning ...

Late spring – mid-May through early June – is a deceptive period of time for most gardeners, vegetable or ornamental. This is ...

There comes a moment every spring when my garden threatens to run away from me. One minute, everything is barely waking up, and then I blink, and I’ve got a jungle on my hands. (It usually happens ...

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 ...

From sun up to sun down, bees are doing important work for the health and safety of the hive. Foraging bees will travel up to 5 miles from the colony to gather up pollen for hungry baby bees back at ...

Lovage (Levisticum officinale) is a hardy perennial herb native to the Mediterranean. As part of the Apiacaea family, it is closely related to carrot, celery, and parsley. This culinary and medicinal ...