5 things to do in the garden this week: 1. This is prime time for planting your fall vegetable garden. Plant the following vegetables from seed: bulb onions, shallots, leeks, chives, garlic, peas, ...

During the garden season, I often use different types of covers over some of my vegetable plants. Since I’m frequently asked about this, I thought it would be helpful to explain when and why I use row ...

As the gardening season begins to wind down and first frost dates creep closer, it’s time to think about protecting your plants for the winter and extending the harvest. Plant covers can help plants ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

The cultivation of crops was one of the fundamental building blocks in the creation of civilization. We humans have been ...

Some of Grow A Garden’s most recent events task you with collecting various types of plants and donating them to help grow a giant tree in the middle of your server. These have event-exclusive rewards ...

You hopefully already know to clean your produce, whether from the store or from your own backyard vegetable garden, before slicing it up to serve in your latest salad. But according to Sunshine ...