Leafy greens are healthy and delicious and it's fun to grow your own. If you live where it's cold in winter, you can still grow them with these tips.

Natural materials like mud, earth and dung, as well as fibrous materials such as straw were used to build homes for centuries. Straw in bale form has been used for buildings since the 1800s. After the ...

Generous rains in December and early January made for early blooming hillsides and canyons. Already, hoary-leaf Ceanothus ( Ceanothus crassifolius) is showing its ivory-white colored flowers, soon to ...

One five‑minute February job on bare soil could mean months of healthy basil and mint, with barely any weeding. Want a constant flow of fresh herbs?

We carpet our homes but what about the garden? So I thought I'd carpet our vegetable garden to stop weeds invading my ...

Shoveling in single-digit temperatures after the colossal winter storm this weekend, I dumped mounds of snow onto my garden beds, knowing it would protect my trees, shrubs and dormant perennials. When ...