Modern vegetable gardening often assumes yearly effort is unavoidable: soil preparation, seed starting, transplanting, and constant replanting. Yet for most of human history, food gardens worked very ...

Perennials are a gardener's quiet secret—a one-time planting that turns into a gift you'll keep unwrapping year after year. They may not put on a show right away, but give them time, and they'll ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Two years ago, I wrote about starting a perennial food garden in Northeast Ohio, inspired by my difficulty finding fresh horseradish at the grocery store for our Passover seder ...

What perennials can I plant around my vegetable garden to attract pollinators? Native species would be a plus. Some of the best perennials for attracting pollinators include bee balm, coneflowers, ...

If you want flowers in your garden that will come bck every year, then you'll want to start planning a perennial flower garden. Perennials reliably come back every year for at least three years (many ...

Depending upon the type of gardening you enjoy, August can be a month with fewer garden tasks and activities. If you tend a large vegetable garden, you are still busy with harvesting, doing battle ...

As the saying goes, money can’t buy happiness. But money can buy plants, and plants make us happy; therefore, money can indeed buy happiness, as long as you spend your money on plants. Perennials are ...

As you prepare your garden for winter, you may look around and see perennial beds full of dead flowers and wilted stems. Rather than pulling out your trusty pair of garden pruners, you may want to ...

Ladybugs, lacewings, and other beneficial insects feed on plant pests and naturally make gardens more pest-resistant. But ...

Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden. A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to ...

For many growers, vegetable gardens are ephemeral. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and many other common garden plants are annuals: seeded in spring and finished by the fall. But the all-annual ...