Once the purple firework display is over, follow these steps to set your alliums up for gorgeous blooms again next year.

When tomatoes start flowering and producing fruit, that's the time they earn their reputation as divas. But not this year!

I set up nine Vego Garden modular raised beds this spring. Here's what I learned and what I would do differently.

Yarrow’s flat-topped flowers are lovely in June and early July, but once they start to brown, they don’t do your garden any favors. Deadheading the spent blooms regularly can keep things tidy, but for ...

You can easily double your tomato harvest by using this simple trick when training tomatoes to grow up a string.

Did you get off to a late start? No worries, there are still so many things you can plant in July for a summer garden.

I’m amazed by my peonies. It still blows my mind that such a massive, frilly blossom comes from a bud roughly the size of a ...

Watering tomatoes isn't rocket science, but there are a few sneaky mistakes that could end up causing your plants stress.

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 ...

I’m of the mind that there are few landscaping problems that more plants can’t solve. Need privacy, better drainage, weed displacement, or to cover up an ugly view? Well, there’s a plant for that. So ...

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 ...

Yup, gardening tools left outside to weather the elements will soon look like old pieces of junk. Rusty hand shears with a dull blade certainly take all the joy out of pruning. Not only does it make ...