Gardener's Greenroom

Weeding. Ugh, right? Many of us view it with dread. Maybe we were tortured with it as a child when all we wanted to do was jump on our bikes and play with the other kids or go to the...

Growing carrots in traditional garden beds gives some gardeners fits. They can be tricky to germinate and don't transplant well. But, once you get it down pat, the joy of a fresh, crisp carrot straight from the garden will convince...

Succession planting helps you efficiently use limited garden space, prolong your harvest, and spread out the workload. It’s an ideal harvest-extending method for crops, whether flowers or vegetables, that mature in short timeframes or produce one big flush and quit. ...

Sweet corn is the taste of summer and a popular crop with home gardeners. Growing popcorn, dent corn, and flint corn at home is gaining steam too. But many people struggle with getting their corn to produce fully stocked ears....

Anyone can decorate a cake with frosting (well, maybe not me but I’m sure other people can). But, using edible flowers for color and design? That's next level. Edible flowers aren't limited to garnish. Whether as a main ingredient in...

Whether you purchased young plants at a garden center or started them yourself from seed, eventually, they'll need to be transplanted.  Don't take them straight from the house and stick them in the ground. There are a few steps to...

Sowing seeds directly into the soil and letting nature do the rest. It’s simple, and uncomplicated. Many of us learned to garden this way as children, sowing seeds with our grubby little fingers. We tucked seeds into the ground, forgot...

It's magic. Tiny little seeds go into their new homes in your seed-starting tray, and a few days later, green shoots pop up. At first, they seem to grow quickly, but then they stop, and now the tomato seedlings you...

When people envision a home garden or wistfully sigh at the pictures of lush gardens in magazines, they often think of lettuce. Not the bland, tasteless, colorless heads wrapped in plastic at the grocery store, but bright lime green, verdant...