Snow blankets your yard, the garden beds sit frozen solid, and most people assume planting season still sits months away. That's exactly when savvy gardeners grab recycled containers, a handful of ...

There are a variety of reasons why gardening is good for your health as well as your yard. Beyond providing healthy meals and snacks, filling your garden with fruits such as watermelons can attract ...

While it’s too soon to plant most vegetables and flowers indoors, it’s the perfect time to sow seeds of dill, cilantro, onions, leeks, celery, datura, laurentia, lisianthus and tuberous begonia. It’s ...

“Life is a process of planting seeds for the future. This is how Adam (from adama, the Hebrew word for earth) got his name. For the virtue of earth is found in the plants that grow out of it and in ...

When the holidays wrap up and the seed catalogs start coming in the mail is about the time I start to get a feeling that I just cannot shake; the faintest voice calls me outside and into the garden.

Many gardeners start flower, vegetable and herb seeds indoors during winter months in order to have seedlings to plant outdoors after the last spring frost occurs, typically around the last week in ...

It was winter, 1999. Trudi Davidoff had a dilemma. She had many seeds to start for her garden. However, she had limited space indoors, poor lighting, a small budget and curious pets. Finally, a ...