Plant experts say keeping your garden fresh and healthy this summer is easy, but it’s important to keep an eye on how much or ...

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Carrots are an excellent vegetable to plant in July for fall harvests, but they’ll need consistent moisture to germinate (so you’ll need to stay on top of keeping your carrot plants well-watered).

Space — or the lack of it — doesn’t have to stand between you and a fruitful garden. You just have to be creative.

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TEXARKANA, Texas -- Liberty-Eylau Early Education Center has a flourishing garden, and its students are growing because of it ...

Perennials. Tall slipper plant (Pedilanthus bracteatus) is a highly drought-tolerant selection from Mexica whose bracts are suggestive of Dorothy’s footwear in “The Wizard of Oz.” These bracts are ...

Lantana can be planted in containers or directly in the ground. Without a doubt, there is one pot of flowers that is the most ...

For those unfamiliar with Long Island, eastern Long Island is very agricultural, from corn, lettuce and strawberries to wine ...

I received my first question about Japanese beetles. Throughout a growing season, plants, insects, diseases and many other ...

Some lilac varieties will send scents wafting across whole yards, with Syringa meyeri Palabin being among the most powerfully ...