There is a lot of choice when it comes to growing squash. That includes picking from the many varieties, with different shapes, sizes, and colors, deciding whether to grow in the ground or containers, ...

Companion planting is a term with multiple meanings. Companion plants for ornamentals such as hydrangeas are selected for aesthetic purposes. In fruit and vegetable gardens, we select companion plants ...

One of the companion plants is an obvious fit with tomatoes: basil. The user shows off the robust basil plants that he says ...

Discover how companion planting, intercropping, and sustainable practices like soil care and natural pest control create ...

It’s a fact of life that certain things are infinitely better when paired together: wine and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, chips and guacamole. But this logic doesn’t apply solely in the kitchen.

If you haven't heard about companion planting before, your garden is about to get far more optimized. While the term may sound complex, at its core, companion gardening is planting two plants with ...

Walking through the Main Street Community Garden you will see many iterations of a well-tended vegetable garden, neat rows of carrots and beets, perfect heads of cabbage. And then there are gardens ...

Isn’t it ironic how the old gardening concepts become new with more knowledge and the switching of outdated terms in preference to more technical scientific terminology? The concept I am thinking ...

WASHINGTON — It's a simple way to help encourage good insects to spend some time in your garden while also keeping bad guys out. Plus, these flowers make your vegetable garden just that much more ...

You can fit carrots (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) almost anywhere in the garden. They don't take up much space, and the long taproots help to break up and aerate the soil for other plants. Some ...