"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." With good soil, lettuce can thrive during the autumn season. This fast-growing vegetable, especially ...

A series of raised garden beds painted white and planted with chili peppers, bell peppers, kale, sunflowers, marigolds, and ...

Calling all gardeners—harvest season is here! Although it’s a time of abundance for squashes, apples, pomegranates, and other fall favorites, it doesn’t mean that we can’t break out the garden trowel ...

When we think about vegetable gardens, we don’t usually think about interplanting flowers and herbs with our vegetables. In recent years, the internet has exploded with information and misinformation ...

As you plant flowers in the vegetable garden, play with colors and textures as the author does in her beautiful central California edible landscape. Grow a profusion of pollen- and nectar-rich blooms ...

Gardening isn’t just good for the planet, it’s good for you. Even if you’re just getting started, gardening can increase your activity levels and lower your stress. According to the Mayo Clinic, the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Barbara Damrosch, Special to The Washington Post As gardeners, we cast our plants in different roles. “Because you’re so beautiful,” we tell a rosebush, ...

It's not too early to get a head start on fresh veggies.

Most of us grew up thinking that vegetable gardening and flower gardening were two very separate entities. If a vegetable gardener heard that you were a gardener, he or she would ask, “What do you ...

When you're scooping out the fireplace, save the ashes to fertilize plants in the garden. Here are seven plants that thrive ...