Summer is arguably the best time of the year. The beaches open up, lobster rolls are aplenty, and everyone with a green thumb is headed out back to their garden to tend to the trellises of beautiful ...

The plants capture and store carbon in the soil, promote healthy soil by preventing compaction and can make the air cooler on ...

This garden maximizes yields by growing cut-and-come-again crops, such as chard, and by growing vertically on a trellis. Discover gardening advice for your backyard vegetable garden, including saving ...

Barbara Damrosch is a lifelong vegetable gardener who’s been one of the most prolific writers on that subject for decades, along with her garden-author husband, Eliot Coleman. The two are best known ...

Maintaining thrivingplants can be tricky when you only have a small space for your vegetable garden. Thankfully, solutions such as compact plants and creative designs can help you grow everything you ...

There seems to be something in the air this time of the year that brings out the vegetable gardener in all of us. Every spring, new gardeners discover growing their own food. And veteran gardeners ...

Growing your own vegetables is not only a rewarding experience but also a step towards a healthier lifestyle and a more ...

Lettuce plants are fairly easy to grow, and even easier to prepare if you just wash them and throw them in a salad or on a sandwich. Growing your own food can be fun, fulfilling, and delicious. It can ...

Many vegetable gardeners get a jump on the growing season by starting their own seeds indoors and February is the time to begin seeding cool-season crops such as onions, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, ...

With the big Memorial Day weekend planting push behind us, many vegetable gardeners are now basking in the glow of their “finished” gardens. But don’t settle into a cruise-control mindset here; ...