Enchanted Garden: Grow A Hanging Vegetable Arbor

Is your backyard tight on garden space and a bit too sunny? Try this incredibly clever and simply gorgeous solution: Build an arbor or trellis for your vine crops, and let them provide you with shade as they spread across the frame, producing flowers, grapes, cucumbers, melons, squash and gourds that hang overhead — to stunning effect.

Gardening in Times of Global Climate Change

As the Earth heats up, weather changes are starting to hit us where it hurts—our backyards. Extreme storms, heat waves, droughts and heavy rains are hitting gardens around the world, flattening some crops and making others flourish. What does climate change mean for your own yard, and how can you prepare and adjust to changing weather patterns?

Grown By You, Built By You: DIY Tomato Cages, Garden Tools, and More!

By now, you’re most likely almost done putting out seed starts.

Refreshing Harvest: 8 Simple Steps to Catch Rainwater for Your Garden

  Does your blood boil when you see a sprinkler watering concrete?

Tender Tomatoes: How To Plan and Plant Your Perfect Crop

Ah, the tomato.

DON’T Chuck These 12 Items Onto Your Compost Pile

In 2009 alone, 37% of Americans considered themselves to be home gardeners, and that was before our current gardening revolution had really even begun.

Bake A Heritage Pie: 5 Heirloom Flours to Try

Heirloom grains (also referred to as heritage grains) offer us the same taste of history and culture as their fruit and vegetable counterparts, and they have a special place in baking. After all, the essential joy of baked goods is that they remind us of the past, fill us with comforting memories—Mom’s chocolate chip cookies during the holidays, or Grandma’s famed apple pie every summer, or even your sister’s experimental gluten-free vegan brownies from her wheat-free phase. Baking is, at its core, inherently tied with these memories of family, history and emotional warmth.

5 Factors That Can Muck Up Your Garden Soil

When growing herbs, veggies and flowers, we often take great care to place plants in prime sunbathing spots and make sure to water them near religiously. We tend to them, pull weeds and fret over any critters that may be lurking on our prized plants, but when it comes to the soil we place those basil seeds and tomato transplants in, dirt is dirt, right?

Fortune-Telling Flowers: Let Spring Blooms Tell You When to Plant Garden Crops

Can you see your future in the flower petals? If you know how to read them, you can. It’s not as arcane an art as reading tea leaves, but keeping an eye on neighborhood blooms can help you determine the best planting dates for your vegetables.

Ranunculus: A Beautiful Chance For Every Garden

Ranunculus: a beautiful chance for every garden. With its bright beauty, the small camellia-like flowers range from white to pink, red to yellow to orange and are indeed special.They most often come in multiple layers of delicate, crepe paper–thin petals, looking like an origami masterwork.

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