Growing up on a farm, I thought everyone had an acre or two set aside as a vegetable garden. It wasn't until I owned my first home that I was faced with starting a garden from scratch in a different ...

Discover new methods for growing your own vegetables with these backyard vegetable garden ideas and tips. Few things are more ...

Plan for successive plantings to keep your garden producing over a longer period. Here are some tips for a basic beginner vegetable garden that can feed a family of four for one summer. » Make your ...

Starting a garden can be daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Proper research and dedication will be needed, but the reward of fresh vegetables from your own backyard will be worth it. While every ...

THE ALLURE of raising your own produce is enough to spark a primal thrill in even the greyest-thumbed cooks—and many more of us have been succumbing to it in recent seasons. According to a survey from ...

Fretting about rising grocery prices has become a national pastime, as people scramble to find ways to shop without breaking the bank. As a result, social media is packed with posts from people ...

While spring is the ideal time to begin digging and growing a traditional vegetable or flower garden, plenty of planning and other tasks can be done at any time of the year. Gardeners spend most of ...

Home-grown vegetables are delicious not only for their freshness, but also because you can choose what to grow based on flavor, rather than commercial qualities. Some basics for getting started: Most ...

Spring has sprung, and that means people across the country will begin pulling weeds and planting seeds if they have not already. However, for those with little or no experience growing fruits, ...

The price of produce is on the rise, but that doesn't have to mean breaking the bank for fresh and nutritious food. Urban gardening initiatives and farmers' markets have been cropping up to get people ...