Doing these August garden jobs can decide how your garden will end this year and how next year’s garden will begin.

August is the perfect time to go shopping for next year's flowers - right in your flower bed. Save these seeds!

Garden trends are nothing new. But which ones stand the test of time? Here are five popular trends that I've decided to ...

Gardening comes with a lot of anecdotal wisdom, and not all of it works. However, one bit of gardening advice that’s proven to work time and again is to plant tomatoes on their side in a trench or ...

Attracting bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects to your garden couldn't come at a better time than now, at this particular point in history. With the decline in insect species worldwide, in ...

Your Christmas cactus may not be a Christmas cactus at all. Here's how to identify your plant, plus how to care for holiday cacti and get more blooms.

Sphagnum mosses are an utterly unique and fascinating genus of bog-dwelling plants. Perhaps you’re most familiar with them in their dried form. The light brown, fibrous, stringy bits are widely used ...

In the realm of sustainable gardening, you’ll quickly find what is old is new again. The techniques of the past, forgotten and rediscovered, are a fount of knowledge and inspiration for the champions ...

The key to a low maintenance and low cost garden is to grow a variety of plants that readily self-seed. Here are some of the easiest self-sowers.

You don't even need a garden to start growing vegetables, fruits and herbs in containers. Here's 30 edibles to start growing in pots.

Powdery mildew is the most common disease to attack squash, zucchini, & pumpkins. Use our tips to beat it and still have a great harvest.