Survival Gardening

When you think about insects living amongst your vegetables, herbs, and flowers, you are likely flooded with visions of locusts devouring the leafy lettuce greens, caterpillars...

The low plains of southeastern Idaho where I grew up were marked by fierce winds year-round and blowing snow in the winter. Most farmers planted some...

Your seed trays and hoes are tucked safely away in the shed and your garden lays fallow under six inches of snow. Although the most active...

Weeds are often the bane of the organic gardener’s life. Even the most committed organic gardener can confess to being tempted to purchase a bottle of...

Nothing heralds the arrival of spring earlier than flowering spring bulbs. These perennial flowers bring beauty, fragrance, and color wherever they’re planted. With proper planning and...

True frogs and their dry-land relatives, toads, are semi-aquatic amphibians that are found on every continent except Antarctica. Toads are in fact a type of frog...

My mother’s vegetable garden was a formidable opponent. It spanned over a quarter of an acre and included almost every vegetable you could think of, plus...

“Root vegetable” is a loose term that describes crops with edible root systems. These include crops like potatoes, garlic, turnips, and carrots, as well as more...

Using food scraps to grow your garden is the sensible thing to do on two different levels: Scraps can be composted (decomposed) into rich soil full...

The South is known for long, lazy summer days and stretches of hot, humid weather. These warm conditions are ideal for growing most vegetables, but Southern...