Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Side yards often get ignored, collecting weeds, forgotten tools, and a general sense of “we’ll deal with it later.” Yet that ...

A more natural, mixed planting can still deliver food, save money, and reduce day-to-day work.

For many people, the idea of growing their own food is a dream that feels out of reach. Maintaining a lush and productive garden often requires hours of labor-intensive work, from planting and weeding ...

For the home gardener, the term perennial means a plant with stems that usually die back in winter and a root system from which new foliage and flowers grow the following year. Most perennials have ...

For many growers, vegetable gardens are ephemeral. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and many other common garden plants are annuals: seeded in spring and finished by the fall. But the all-annual ...

Spring is a great time to divide many of our favorite herbaceous garden perennials. The plants are small, easy to handle, and they have the entire growing season to get re-established in your garden.

You’ve probably heard plants described as annuals and perennials in gardening. Knowing the difference between annual vs. perennial plants will help you understand how each type will behave in your ...

Perennial plants promise to return every year yet they take their time to settle in. The first year, they sleep. The next year, they creep. And then they leap. It’s leap year for the perennial garden ...

Perennials are the delight of the flower gardener. Showy and colorful like annuals, their longer lives make them a less transient part of the garden. Their ability to live for years allows them to ...