This summer’s extended period of extreme heat and drought has wreaked havoc on all plants great and small. One gardening practice that can make a considerable difference in combating extreme ...

Shredded organic matter is a boon to beds, borders and edible gardens. Here’s how to use it. By Sal Vaglica For gardeners, spring has a way of opening wallets as easily as forsythia and crocuses ...

Peter Richards plants vegetables in sheet mulch, and Joellen Dimond plants a container herb garden. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, local gardener Peter Richards shows how to ...

Rather than toss them, put old nursery pots to good use with an easy hack that can cut your mulching time in half without risking damage to your plants.

Walk into any Home Depot during spring, and you will be met with aisles lined with tractors, lawn mowers, seed packets, planters, pots, bagged soil, and starter plants. Another common springtime sale ...