Tribune Happy New Year! My New Year’s wish is for nice, slow, soaking rainfalls to help our new plants establish and our established plants thrive. What’s your garden ...

Keep your flowers blooming, your plants green and lush, and your fruit and vegetable harvest plentiful with these best garden ...

Larger flowering bulbs like tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and alliums will put on quite a display in your home or in a window box or container. Add some smaller bulbs like crocus, squills and grape ...

While usually considered a safe and free way to compost and fertilize your garden, health threats from H5N1 and ...

My mother and both my grandmothers used a wood-fired stove for cooking. I often had the chore of cutting and splitting the firewood and stacking it on the porch near ...

MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida including ground-cover roses, pepper plants, spring transplanting, bare spots ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced that USDA is making domestic fertilizer production investments in nine states to increase competition, lower fertilizer costs ...

The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic ...

We preferred flowers that arrived securely and attractively ... as well as instructions on trimming the stems, adding plant food, and watering—perhaps not the festive experience of unwrapping ...

Brown-tipped leaves on a peace lily can be a sign that your plant is not getting enough water. The first sign your peace lily ...

One of the many things Martha Stewart does well is have a beautiful blooming garden. Learn her fertilizing secret for your ...

Find out how to fertilize houseplants in winter, and if you even need to add fertilizer at all during the colder months.