Soil pollution can be a serious problem. Fortunately, nature has a solution. Plant these particular flowers, and it'll make a huge difference in your garden.

Keep cardboard boxes out of the trash and repurpose them to remove weeds in your garden using a sustainable technique.

It is going to be very hot from now until October, so make sure that you have plenty of shade in which to shelter from the ...

Ask UW-Extension horticulture educator Lisa Johnson your questions about your yard, garden and plants. Send questions to ...

Certain trees, like figs, crape myrtles, calamondins, ginkgos, and Japanese maples, can thrive when planted in pots rather ...

One of my favorite spring flowers for perennials is the peony. Peonies are a long-lived perennial that you should be able to enjoy for decades. A few years after Sharon and I got married; my parents ...

I received an email from one of my readers about her Rhubarb or Rheumrhabarbarum. It seems that the stalks on her rhubarb were as thin and weak as they haveever been. Her rhubarb normally does well ...

In July, “June gloom” gives way to summer heat. Days are long. Tomatoes finally ripen. Summer fruits are warm on the tree.

After a hard cut like this, apply Holly Tone or compost to compensate for the loss of photosynthesizing leaves. Through the ...

Plants can't survive without water. But too much or too little causes problems. More plants have been killed by improper ...

A: If a picture is worth a thousand words, your photo says it all. The curling, distorted stems and leaves are classic ...

A time for succulent squash, impossibly sweet corn, life-altering tomatoes, and, perhaps most thrilling of all, utterly ...