Hippies and gardens go together. So do slugs and gardens, even though that's not an ideal match. But how are hippies involved when there are slugs eating your garden? I'll  …

Cow dung, also known as cow pies or cow manure, is the holy grail ingredient on the farm where the biggest gardens are grown. It's also packed and shipped off  …

Let me kick off with your first pineapple fact of the day: Did you know that pineapples were once such a prized possession that people would rent them to display  …

I've learned a lot about hummingbirds in the garden over the years. I've learned that they are not only incredibly beautiful creatures, but that they are also quite delicate. I've  …

I am sure there’s a systematic way to add to, aerate, and otherwise mix my backyard compost heap in the most efficient and productive way possible, a process with inputs  …

Ah, the joys of gardening! There’s nothing quite like tending to your plants under the warm summer sun. But while your tomatoes and tulips may be soaking up those rays,  …

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  …

Candy probably isn't what comes to mind when you think about a Spring garden poem. Daffodils? Tulips? Clover? Sure. But candy? Not so much. For that matter, what does candy  …

Whether it's a grandmother's or mother's garden, the gardens we remember from childhood are almost always places we can return to in our minds to find a moment of peace  …

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,  …