It's August, the last stretch of summer, and time to give our flowers a little TLC. Deadheading these plants will keep your ...

Many of us have bad habits we don't even know about that can spread disease in our gardens. Turn over a new leaf for ...

Laying reflective aluminum foil around the base of your plants can bounce light back up under the canopy. This extra light ...

A hard prune in early spring can do wonders. Cut the entire shrub back to 6” to 8” and clean out any dead branches within the ...

A propane weed torch is an inexpensive and effective tool for dealing with weeds. Here's everything you need to know about ...

It helps to make your own list to get started with ways to make money from your homestead or small farm. In one column, come up with a list of skills that you already have, in another dream up a list ...

Gardening comes with a lot of anecdotal wisdom, and not all of it works. However, one bit of gardening advice that’s proven to work time and again is to plant tomatoes on their side in a trench or ...

You're probably familiar with using beeswax in candle making, but you can do so much more than that. Here are 33 brilliant ways to use beeswax.

The key to a low maintenance and low cost garden is to grow a variety of plants that readily self-seed. Here are some of the easiest self-sowers.