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October gardening tips for outdoor flowering plants, ornamentals and vegetable gardening are provided in this week's column.

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we look at tips for creating a vegetable garden. There’s a ...

Heavy snows need to be brushed off from tree and shrub branches to prevent breaking. Ice events can cause broken branches. Prune out damage. Recycled evergreen boughs from the holidays can be used to ...

Growing up on a farm, I thought everyone had an acre or two set aside as a vegetable garden. It wasn't until I owned my first home that I was faced with starting a garden from scratch in a different ...

As a new season of the year approaches, novice gardeners who have leftover seeds might wonder if they should toss out their packets or hold onto them for next year. This could be especially of ...

Summer is trying to make an escape. Our summer gardens are winding down. The tomatoes, zucchini and peppers are waning. Many home gardeners think only in spring about planting a vegetable garden, but ...

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, ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - You may not want to throw everything away the next time you’re chopping up vegetables. “If you’re in the kitchen and you’re chopping away some vegetable scraps, when ...