Petunias are no longer the plain Janes of the flower border. The exciting and colorful new cultivars are considerably more expensive, so you may want to overwinter them to save money in the spring. Read this article to find out about petunia winter care.

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The amount of light, food and water an organic garden receives is only part of what determines whether your plants will thrive. Climate also plays a big role.

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Get your garden growing with the humor and wisdom of editor Steve Bender. Ask a Question

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In tried-and-true organic style, the best approach places the emphasis on establishing and maintaining healthy plants as a way to ward off pests and disease.

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Propagating dogwood cuttings is easy and inexpensive. For the home gardener, the easiest and fastest method of dogwood tree propagation is taking softwood cuttings. Find out how to grow dogwood cuttings in this article.

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Add to the natural autumn beauty of your yard with harvest-inspired fall outdoor decorations. Featuring natural elements such as pumpkins, leaves, and more, our versatile fall outdoor decorating ideas will span the season fro

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Fall is the time for making sure you'll have plenty of color in your landscape come spring. Now's the time to divide perennials, if you haven't done so in the last few years.

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Fall garden clean up is essential to the long term health of your garden. Read this article to learn more about preparing a vegetable garden for winter so you will have a head start come spring.

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An Easy Way to Multiply Your Shrubs

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Watch Fall Garden Checklist in the Better Homes and Gardens Video

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Sweet pea shrubs are neat, rounded evergreens that bloom off and on all year long. They’re perfect for those spots where you get shade in the summer and full sun in winter. Find out how to grow a sweet pea bush in this article.

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Ficus trees are a popular houseplant that can be found in many homes. But they do have the habit of dropping leaves seemingly without reason. This article will help explain why this happens.

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The Best Herbs for Growing Indoors: Organic Gardening

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Propagate Basil for Pennies!

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In order to get the most from your crops, it’s important to practice annual pruning raspberry pruning. So how do you prune raspberry bushes and when? Find out in the article that follows.

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Sage, so popular with pork and in stuffings, is the most recognized winter herb. It's fairly hardy, and will usually survive winters in Zone 6 and warmer.

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Growing a hart’s tongue fern in the landscape is an attractive notion, but harvesting the native plants will only further deplete their territory and help eradicate them from native environs. Learn more about hart’s tongue fern care in this article.

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You can grow papyrus from seed or division. This fast growing plant would be an excellent addition to a water garden or naturalized bog area. Learn more about growing papyrus plants in this article.

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Sure, we love pumpkins, just like everybody else. But we're especially attracted to the unusual varieties. And many of those are heirloom pumpkins.

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It's hard enough in areas where extreme cold is frequent to keep perennials in the ground alive. It's much harder overwintering potted plants.

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K-Cup seed starters

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This old-time Southern method of drying and preserving green beans and wax beans is a great organic way to store your bean crop for the winter.

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This plant sure looks pretty, doesn't it? Kinda like English ivy with kaleidoscopic leaves of red, pink, yellow, and green. It sports pretty white flowers too. DO NOT PLANT IT! If you do, you will ...

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The biggest mistakes I've made growing vegetables (or right up there) has to do with not taking the time for a good garden cleanup before winter.

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Plants are diverse living organisms that can be found all over the world. While they vary dramatically in appearance and location, many of them contain the same basic parts.

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Seven gardening tasks that will make your life easier in the spring

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Many gardeners add compost, manure and other organic materials to enrich the soil, but another method is by planting veggie garden cover crops. So what is it and why is cover cropping for increased vegetable production a good idea? Click here to find out.

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How to Propagate Boxwoods

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Rotating Garden Crops

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How to Harvest and Cure Squash: Organic Gardening

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