So you’ve decided to start a home garden. You’ve pored over seed catalogs to pick out which plants you want to grow and you’ve read some books to learn more about home gardening. But there’s one big ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's common for would-be gardeners to get discouraged from starting a garden for a variety of reasons, ending up staring wistfully at endless ...

No matter how established your garden is or how diligent you are about regularly pulling weeds from your garden beds, it seems like you can never quite eradicate these tenacious yet unwanted plants.

This spring, I’m trying a method of growing flowers that is new to me, but it dates back to the 16th century. It’s called direct seeding, or direct sowing. Vegetable gardeners are familiar with this ...