Gardening

Urban gardening is a tool that can help correct food inequities in America and beyond. Here is how to defeat the inherent challenges.

Keeping your garden always in bloom, almost all year round, can be done easily with a flower bed. But how to build it? This guide will show you!

Keeping a DIY tick repellent on hand for your family to use makes good sense because ticks suck. Literally. I'm saying these little buggers attach to your skin, use their tiny tick mouths to latch on, burrow into your skin, and suck the blood out of you. They are nasty critters. Their bites are painful and they cause disease. Therefore, applying repellent before you spend time outdoors in the summer is a must!

A while ago, I talked about plants that preferred a cool shade to the blazing heat of the sun's rays. For those worried about...

Need a pop of color for the shaded parts of your garden? Here are 5 perennial plants that you can plant to cover those shaded spots.

Grow cucumbers vertically on a cucumber cage to increase your cucumber production. It's easy to train them to grow up the cage, they look stunning, and you will get more cucumbers. I have tried different methods in years past to train my cucumbers to grow vertically, However, using a cucumber cage aka tomato cage is the simplest way that I have tried.