We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you're a gardener, you likely have this problem: a shed, spare room, or potting station filled with plastic nursery pots. They are, after ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Seeing birds in my backyard splashing in the birdbath, singing in one of our hardwood trees, the cardinal nestled in its nest in our cedar ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You've probably heard of the concept of bottomless planters, where you cut the bottom out of a pot, sit it on the ground or your garden bed, ...

Buy a plant or flowers and more often than not it will come in a pot made of black plastic that you’ll get rid of once you replant your new purchase. But that black plastic is incredibly hard to ...

A: My faithful readers are going to be experts on the basic rules-of-thumb for R.I.’s bin/cart recycling program. I repeat them as often as I can in my quest to get all Rhode Islanders to a status of ...

You're not throwing that in trash, are you? Plastic plant pots can now be recycled all over the place. Check the number of the plastic inside the recycling symbol on the bottom of your pots. Some are ...

For me, I hate to throw anything away, if I think I can find a second use for a product. However, I always seem have a ton of those plastic nursery pots laying around. They are nice to have when I ...

Many of you are itching to start planting seeds indoors – but it is still way too early. You can, however, get your lights, racks, media mix and containers ready. Order your seeds, draw out your plan ...

When you are small and fluffy like a baby Alpaca, pretty much everything in the world is going to look new to you. However, some things don't just look "new," they look downright suspicious. Take this ...