Putting tomatoes in the fridge negatively impacts their texture and flavor. Learn how to store tomatoes for the best flavor.

These red flags reveal raised bed soil that needs a little compost and TLC. Here's what they are and how to save your soil.

Doing these August garden jobs can decide how your garden will end this year and how next year’s garden will begin.

Garden trends are nothing new. But which ones stand the test of time? Here are five popular trends that I've decided to ...

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

Marigolds can suppress 14 genera of parasitic nematodes, but there’s a catch. It’s only effective as a cover crop planted at least two months before your tomatoes go in. Planting marigolds and ...

Or maybe not. To tell you the truth, I started this article with the intention of showing you, step-by-step, how to age terracotta pots using several popular methods. But as the weeks passed, I was ...

You could say we have an obsession with compost around here. And why wouldn’t we? It’s the perfect organic soil amendment – nutrient-rich and filled with microbial life – that we can make ourselves, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m sure this soil used to be higher? One of the benefits of growing in raised beds is complete control over the contents and quality of the soil – but this can also be one of its biggest drawbacks.

If you wander into the garden section at any store, inevitably, you’ll be met by a wall of orange pots – the terracotta section. If you’re new to gardening in general or just terracotta pots, ...