To get you started, here are 10 common plants that are easy to overwinter as cuttings, along with tips on how to root and ...

September and October are two of the most enjoyable months of the gardening season. Day temperatures are cooling, night temperatures become refreshing, rains are quenching a dry summer, and herbs in ...

Winter isn't peak season for most plants, including herbs, but if you harvest before cold weather sets in, you can enjoy the ...

Think plant propagation is too hard? Anyone can be a plant propagator by practicing these traditional, low-tech, and easy plant propagation techniques. The most common way to grow new plants is to sow ...

Question: Instead of buying herb plants this year, I’d like to save some money and grow my own from seed. Can I start any herb from seed, or am I better off purchasing some of them as plants? Answer: ...

It may not be possible to create matter from nothing, but it might seem that way if you learn how to grow dill by propagation ...

Spring brings a patch of bluebonnets to Beth and Jim Murphy's garden. In late summer, dancing lady gingers flower in the shade and yard-long beans climb a string trellis in the sun. Brilliant yellow ...

1. Slug abatement. Greg, who gardens in Long Beach, sent an email touting turtles for slug control: “Two box turtles In my little 150 square foot garden keep the slug population at or near zero at the ...

Gnarly, pocked and bulbous, celeriac’s looks could kill appetites. The root vegetable sprouts a Muppet-like shock of bright green stalks that wave pleasantly enough from a mound of soil. The tuber ...