Key Points Several common fall lawn tasks can hurt your lawn instead of helping it.These tasks weaken roots, smother grass, and encourage mold and pests.Instead, focus on aeration, dethatching, ...

Just because the weather is cooler doesn’t mean weeds have stopped growing — they’re still out there! Mulch blocks sunlight ...

Shallots are an easy-to-grow cool-season vegetable. With a little attention to detail, you can grow and harvest enough ...

Vegetable gardening sometimes seems strictly utilitarian: how many tomatoes and green beans can I harvest? But I remain ...

Clean up your decks, walks and driveways, but you have permission to forget the rest of the yard, garden columnist Jeff ...

When the twilight sun sinks below the tree line on the western horizon in the second half of September, a comfortable nip ...

Fall is a great time to improve your soil for next year’s garden. Many of the resources needed are readily available and many ...

Removing weeds is an important gardening task and landscape fabric is a popular weed barrier, but one gardener’s warning has some people doubting if it actually causes more damage than it prevents ...

Landscape fabric is a go-to weed control method, but a warning from one gardener has people questioning whether it's doing ...

You'll be able to enjoy leeks, carrots, main crop potatoes, autumn cauliflowers and many other veg in October, but keep an ...

Remember to keep a gardening journal. Take pictures and draw diagrams for next year. Jot down what worked and what did not.