It doesn't take a lot of space or special equipment to start a compost pile or bin at home. Composting benefits garden soil ...

Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden. A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to ...

In most areas, it’s time to plant your summer vegetable crops. These include tomatoes, capsicums, eggplants and chillies, ...

This fall, when you visit the garden center in search of seasonal color, be sure to toss a mum or aster into your cart.

Get Texas gardening answers on vitex sun requirements and transplanting, using AC condensate, reviving crape myrtle blooms, and tough plants for full sun.

Planting for the cool season continues this week. Lettuce, kale and cabbage can be planted now and enjoyed later in the fall. These are also plants that can be left to grow through the winter, ...

Chrysanthemums, better known as mums for short, are the traditional flowers to provide color to porches, decks, and home ...

The scientific name for sorghum is Sorghum bicolor. This includes grain sorghum, grown primarily for the seed located at the ...

Mulch plays a crucial role in suppressing weed growth, retaining moisture and moderating temperatures around tree and plant roots. But it breaks down over time, so yours may have thinned out over the ...

Growing food in a small garden can produce a surprisingly big harvest, whether its on an urban balcony, in a tiny yard, or ...

Oats, winter wheat, cereal rye, and barley are all cool-season soil-feeding cover crops. Their dense growth rate covers soil ...

The month of autumn’s arrival is here. That means he bulbs of spring flowering bulbs such as jonquil’s, narcissus, daffodils, ...