Growing your own sun-ripened strawberries is one of the easiest and most rewarding gardening efforts you can undertake.
Consult these seed starting tips for easy advice on seed planting, using the best materials, watering, grow lights and more.
Author Kimberlee Bastien shares the five most important ingredients for starting healthy seedlings indoors.
All you need to know about growing lilies, from planting bulbs by a number of propagation methods to beautiful blooms.
Now that the season’s first warm days beckon us outdoors, it's the ideal time to plant a few early spring crops.
What does this resilient homestead do in the winter? Extract essential oils for home use and sale using a vintage copper still and some on-farm ingenuity.
Grow more, save space, and harvest with ease by using these basic techniques for vertical gardening. Originally published as "High-Rise Plantings" in the July/August 1989 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS.
This article explains what causes crop plants to go to seed early, and what you can do to delay that. Annual and biennial plants have different bolting triggers to work with.
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