Don't waste green tomatoes at the end of the season, ripen them indoors and enjoy delicious, red tomatoes long into the fall!

Whether you have a frost or a freeze warning on the way, you need to take these three steps to ensure your garden survives.

How do you get it to bloom? Christmas or Thanksgiving? What do you mean it bears fruit? Things you need to know about your ...

I often see peace lilies make it to the top of lists of houseplants that thrive on neglect. I believe – and you can disagree – that no plant thrives if it has been neglected. It merely survives. And ...

Many years ago, when I first discovered that a surefire way to get free houseplants was to bring some in from the garden, you would have thought I’d hit the jackpot. When you’re a plant-obsessed ...

Imagine a vegetable garden where the tomatoes are plump and juicy with perfectly unblemished skin, pepper plants so strong that they easily bear the weight of their dangling bell fruits, and leafy ...

Self-reliance is a very beautiful and practical way of living to strive for, which offers many rewards, mostly beyond the monetary realm. Yet, there are a few intrepid homesteaders out there who want ...

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, ...

When I first started gardening in earnest, my learning zeal was as high as the leggy tomatoes I was growing. I was humble enough to know that I didn’t know much, so I’d devour one book a week on the ...

Cream Legbar chicks – I dare you not to fall in love with those faces. Getting baby chicks is so much fun. Those fuzzy balls of fluff have a way of melting even the chilliest of hearts, and before you ...

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 ...

Learn from my mistakes – always, always survey your working area before packing it in for the day. Or else…this will happen: Yup, gardening tools left outside to weather the elements will soon look ...