This past winter, my family and I had the opportunity to escape the cold and spend some time in Florida. While there, my daughter and I visited a local strawberry  …

  Buckle up, buttercups, because I'm about to take you on a wild ride through my sunflower-growing escapade! Actually, to be honest, it was my neighbor's escapade because he admired the  …

Ah ... the infamous clay soil. The nemesis of gardeners everywhere. When it comes to the loose, well-drained soil that gardens love, clay soil is the opposite. Tender roots have  …

  Throughout history, poets have turned to the natural world for solace and inspiration in times of grief and loss. From the haunting beauty of William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as  …

Deep in the volumes of garden lore, there are mysteries and codes, surprises and stories. Many have fascinated gardeners for years. Yet one remains mysterious: Why do tomatoes split?  Your vines  …

  Last Valentine's Day, my daughter's kindergarten class had a wonderful idea to create seed packets filled with sunflower seeds. As a parent, I was thrilled to help out, and together  …

  "What kind of bush is that?" my husband asked as I transplanted my gooseberry bush into one of our garden beds at our new house. I bought it through a  …

For those of you who are like me and aren't especially fond of weeding, there's another way to keep them under control: cover crops. And the best cover crops are  …

If you are anything at all like me, you have leftovers in your fridge right now. I always mean well. I am going to eat it for lunch the next  …

As much as I love the idea of microbiomes and letting nature do its thing, when it comes to finding aphids on tomato plants in my garden, I tend to  …