It’s that time of year again, when the ground thaws, the days stretch a little longer and gardens begin to wake up. But along with fresh blooms and sprouting vegetables comes another wave of activity: ...

Companion plants play various roles in the vegetable garden community. The bean companions featured here enhance harvests ...

A handful of soil contains about 10 to 100 million organisms. Soil invertebrates provide essential ecosystem benefits like cycling nutrients that plants need to grow, decomposing dead plants and ...

It loves moist soil, growing most happily in the shade ... those may be signs that pests like aphids, slugs, and foliar ...