The end of summer is the perfect time to get your fall garden situated right before hunkering down for the first frost. Companion planting — the practice of growing certain plants together for mutual ...

Q. How does companion planting work? Companion planting has been around for a long time, so most of the early evidence was anecdotal in nature. Eventually, companion planting was scientifically proven ...

It is just about that time -- time to plant the summer garden! While many have already started planting those more cold-hardy crops like lettuce, kale and cabbage, our main planting time has yet to ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

Companion planting is the practice of grouping plants together that have beneficial relationships. Companion planting isn’t an exact science, and takes experimentation and observation. The goal of ...

Grow sweet alyssum to provide nectar for hoverflies, which feed on aphids. Each spring, I grow legions of onions and shallots from seed, and my biggest challenge is keeping them weeded. Last year, I ...