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

This is always a bittersweet time of the year for me. Gardening is one of my favorite activities during the summer, but in my ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

August is the hottest month in the gardens. Vegetable and flower gardeners relish in the bounty the heat and monsoon rain ...

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

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

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