Vegetable gardening at home is an easy way to save money while you get up close and personal with nature. Planting one plant ($3 to $5), for example, can provide 10 pounds of tomatoes over the season.

The term "annual" refers to any plant that can be sowed, achieve germination, blossom, and wither over the course of a year. Offering almost endless variety and near-instant gratification, annuals are ...

To help gardeners of all levels, Gardenary shares her top 10 picks of plants anyone can grow easily—even those with zero ...

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Dreaming about growing your own veggies or flowers? Starting a garden for the first time can feel like a big leap, especially ...

This step-by-step guide to starting a garden will set you up for success. Reviewed by Sylvia Duax Fact checked by Marcus Reeves Starting a garden from scratch as a beginner can seem daunting. One of ...

Skipping mulch is a common mistake that makes your garden work harder to stay healthy. Without mulch, soil dries out quickly, especially in the heat. Mulch acts like a blanket, keeping moisture in and ...

The rewards of gardening are great — fresh air, exercise, beauty and relaxation, to name a few. But designing and planting your very first garden can feel like an overwhelming task. Luckily, gardens ...

— Recommendations are independently chosen by our editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming ...

It’s a simple setup. Eight colorful Adirondack chairs are arranged in a circle around a stacked stone hearth, surrounded, ...

This subject should have appeared last fall. Our giant northern red oak had a massive crop of acorns — the largest crop ever — for this giant tree planted around 1970. At that time, the young tree was ...