There are a lot of funny gardening stories I can relate to. Kids picked the tomatoes too early? Been there. Dog tore up 200 freshly planted bulbs? Totally! There was  …

"Let's open up the bidding at 800. Who'll give me 8? gimme 8, gimme 8. C'mon, look at that udder, fellas. Looks like milk in the ring. 800. 8 and  …

It’s no wonder why hospitals and mental health facilities build healing gardens for their patients. There is no such place that can change your mindset so easily than the scent  …

The other week I helped my sister move from Paris, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia, from a rural farm to a small white house in the city. Not just any urban  …

There aren’t many stories I read that make me both want to laugh and cry at the same time, but today’s story, The Cowbird Way, is such a sweet, funny  …

Sometimes I wonder how our readers and writers get to be so wise. But in today’s story about the joy of gardening that I’m sharing with you from Pamela J. Tinnin,  …

Ah, to be a beginner gardener. I remember those days. I think I even proclaimed to have a black thumb when I was young when really all I had was  …

June—such a wonderful gardening month, especially for a vegetable gardener. (I’m more the veggie than the flower type.) You and your garden are bursting with energy, and Spring crops are  …

Haven’t we all had a forehead-smacking discovery once—ok maybe more than once—in our gardening lives? I know I have, but not one quite as laughably cringe-inducing as the gardening humor  …

When my children were young, I was sure that they didn’t listen. Even a doe-eyed three year old attached at the hip who seems like they’re patiently listening to all  …