Gigi (@gigisgardentips) shared a hack on how to use toilet paper rolls as seed starters. "They're biodegradable, protect ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder with front-yard landscaping, but some features are universally bad. Keep your neighbors ...

I moved along the garden row, pulling weeds as I did so. I noticed one marigold plant in the row along the edge of the garden ...

Good bugs pollinate our food crops, enrich and fertilize the soil, eat our garbage and provide food for wildlife.

This reduces the amount of bare soil where weed seeds can germinate and blocks sunlight, inhibiting weed growth. This ...

Maybe you don't have the room or the time to add compost to your soil. Luckily, leaves and stems are also great vehicles for ...

Another way to keep tough grasses out of the garden is to use metal edging around the outside of the garden bed, notes ...

One of my favorite spring flowers for perennials is the peony. Peonies are a long-lived perennial that you should be able to enjoy for decades. A few years after Sharon and I got married; my parents ...

Success with raised beds for gardening, landscaping, or a combination of both is quite easy. In the simplest form, you simply ...

When I was a kid, my aunt and uncle grew tomatoes in plastic buckets lined up like soldiers on the cement patio in their tiny ...

Not to mention a selection of house plants which are good investments for being long-lived and self-propagating. Start the ...

Here are some grasses that handle wet winters and dry summers with relative ease, while adding year-round interest and texture.