Amaranth is almost too good to be true: it's easy to grow, it's a beautiful ornamental plant, and you can eat it!

It’s sweet corn season! Eating fresh corn on the cob is something we all look forward to each summer. But as you’re working your way through our list of 20 Creative and Delicious Sweet Corn Recipes ...

Chances are good that you found this article because you are thinking about planting cucumbers in your garden – and wish nothing but the best for their, and your, success. Or perhaps these companions ...

From sun up to sun down, bees are doing important work for the health and safety of the hive. Foraging bees will travel up to 5 miles from the colony to gather up pollen for hungry baby bees back at ...

All throughout the year, glass jars are in season. Pickle jars, mustard jars, jam jars, peanut butter jars, Mason jars… Tall ones, short ones, blue ones, clear ones. Glass jars can be found in all ...

Why on earth would you want to grow a fruit tree in your house? Why on earth wouldn’t you? If you’ve got the space, growing a dwarf fruit tree in your home has some excellent perks. Aside from the ...

We’ve all seen the same advice when it comes to watering tomatoes: water them deeply, but infrequently. Okay. Well, ‘deeply’ isn’t exactly an amount. It’s not really something you can measure. How ...

A new year means a fresh green start to your garden. The land of opportunity and of glorious harvests. Planning for the best is always an optimistic view to strive for. Yet, it can happen, even in the ...

Lovage (Levisticum officinale) is a hardy perennial herb native to the Mediterranean. As part of the Apiacaea family, it is closely related to carrot, celery, and parsley. This culinary and medicinal ...

Sphagnum mosses are an utterly unique and fascinating genus of bog-dwelling plants. Perhaps you’re most familiar with them in their dried form. The light brown, fibrous, stringy bits are widely used ...

Native to the Middle East, the pistachio tree (Pistacia vera) is a long lived desert plant that bears clusters of small reddish drupes. Pistachio drupes need long, hot, and dry summers in order to ...

If you have never heard the term Hügelkultur before, then you may be rather confused about the subject of this article. But those in the know understand that this is a key approach in organic ...