In a classic tale of taking over someone else’s choices when you buy a place, when we moved into our current home and garden, ...

Summer is prime time for fertilizer mistakes. You can easily prevent a gardening disaster by avoiding these mistakes.

Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) is a time-tested way to boost magnesium levels. Still, unless you know your soil is deficient, ...

Here's what to do when your columbine has finished its fairytale flower display for the year to ensure more blooms next year.

Once the purple firework display is over, follow these steps to set your alliums up for gorgeous blooms again next year.

When tomatoes start flowering and producing fruit, that's the time they earn their reputation as divas. But not this year!

I set up nine Vego Garden modular raised beds this spring. Here's what I learned and what I would do differently.

Spring pruning is one of my favorite gardening jobs. I think of spring pruning as a call for renewal. Whatever the plant equivalent is for that feeling of relief when you relax your shoulders and ...

Brown leaf tips on your houseplants are unsightly and can cause concern. But how do you fix it and keep it from happening in the future?

I was itching to get some bulbs in the ground, but October was way too warm for this gardening job. Putting bulbs in soil that was still warm would have been a mistake. One that I’ve made before and I ...

One of the most irksome sites for weeds to grow is between the gaps of the hardscape. Here, in the spaces around stone pathways and patios, dandelions, crabgrass, spurge, plantain, clovers, and ...

Self-reliance is a very beautiful and practical way of living to strive for, which offers many rewards, mostly beyond the monetary realm. Yet, there are a few intrepid homesteaders out there who want ...