We've been told to water our tomatoes "deeply & infrequently." But what does that mean, and does it apply to every kind of ...

If you're growing beans this year, you'll want to follow these tips to maximize your harvest and get the most beans for your ...

Many of our readers have asked, so here it is, my simple tomato feeding routine and preferred fertilizers for incredible tomatoes every year.

Seed tape can be a handy tool for the gardener, but there are a few downsides to it. This product gets rid of them and makes ...

After years of searching I found the perfect mulch for my garden - pine flakes. Let me show you why it's the best mulch.

Whether you’ve been at this whole gardening thing for a while or you’re just getting started, you probably know that starting your own seeds is a game changer. But doing so means giving up a chunk of ...

Have you spent hours planting green beans around your other vegetables to “fix nitrogen” and then wondered why it never made a difference? Same, girl. Same. We’ve all been fed the same half-truths, ...

Once in your lifetime, you should find the time to build a beautiful cob oven in your backyard. If you can’t find time, then you’ll have to “make time”, because you simply cannot live a full life ...

The most important thing you can do to get your Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera) to bloom each year is to ensure it goes through a proper dormant phase with shorter days and cooler nights. I talk ...

The signs of sickly plants – wilted leaves, discolored foliage, malformed and stunted growth – are like a silent plea for help. If every leaf tells a story, this one would be saying the plants aren’t ...

You could say we have an obsession with compost around here. And why wouldn’t we? It’s the perfect organic soil amendment – nutrient-rich and filled with microbial life – that we can make ourselves, ...

When I first started gardening in earnest, my learning zeal was as high as the leggy tomatoes I was growing. I was humble enough to know that I didn’t know much, so I’d devour one book a week on the ...