August is the perfect time to go shopping for next year's flowers - right in your flower bed. Save these seeds!

Dahlias are some of the most stunning flowers you can grow each year, but they can also be divas. If your dahlias aren't blooming, here's why.

It helps to make your own list to get started with ways to make money from your homestead or small farm. In one column, come up with a list of skills that you already have, in another dream up a list ...

Sweet and loaded with spicy ginger flavor, honey-fermented ginger is an easy to make fermented food. Mix up a batch within minutes.

Bee scientists believe that bees find water by scent rather than sight, and are most drawn to water that emits the earthy aromas of nature. Bees are more likely to ignore pristine water straight out ...

Often, in companion planting, we plant certain vegetables next to each other for reasons of disease prevention. Other times the placement of plants can be neutral. Meaning that the relationship is ...

Clearly, dwarf fruit trees are the ideal for smaller outdoor spaces. Some dwarfing rootstocks can limit tree size to just three feet tall and wide, making it possible to plant fruit-bearing trees in ...

Attracting bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects to your garden couldn't come at a better time than now, at this particular point in history. With the decline in insect species worldwide, in ...

The key to a low maintenance and low cost garden is to grow a variety of plants that readily self-seed. Here are some of the easiest self-sowers.

Gardening comes with a lot of anecdotal wisdom, and not all of it works. However, one bit of gardening advice that’s proven to work time and again is to plant tomatoes on their side in a trench or ...

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 ...

Remember this one rule: bury deep and cover well! When we’re composting in place (also called composting in situ), we’re cutting out the middleman and putting the plant material straight into the ...