Once you've enjoyed fresh soursop, it's easy to fall in love. If you can't get enough of this fantastic fruit, you might even be considering growing soursop in your garden. As with all plants, you ...
13 Pea Plant Problems and How To Fix Them
Pretty much every gardener I know has had at least one episode of frustrated crying or yelling. This is because so many things can go wrong when tending a garden. Even if you technically do everything ...
13 Radicchio Plant Problems and How To Fix Them
If you like exciting salads, radicchio is probably a regular in your garden. It adds a pop of color and a burst of bitter, radish-y spice. While they're fairly reliable producers, you'll eventually ...
Weeping Fig Plant: How to Grow and Care for the Benjamin Ficus
Weeping figs are an impressive houseplant, and equally as stately as an outside specimen. It was a popular pot plant in the 1970s and 1980s before falling out of favor for a while. Now, growing ...
What Science Says About Companion Planting Techniques
Many of us incorporate companion planting into our garden. Some create guilds like three sisters gardens, while others plant species that either attract or repel various insect species. But do these ...
11 Problems When Growing Cabbage Plants and How to Solve Them
Can you imagine a family BBQ without coleslaw or a weekend get-together without fried cabbage? Picture a holiday meal without sauerkraut. Horrible, right? However you like to use cabbage, it's an easy ...
8 Tips to Harvesting Sweet Potatoes and Protecting Your Bumper Crop
The sweet potato has got to be one of my all-time favorite vegetables. This starchy tuber is equal parts nutrition, dinner, and dessert - I even know people who eat sweet potatoes for ...
8 Ways to Use Rose Hips and A Few Things to Keep In Mind When Using Them
Even though your roses may have started dying back, it doesn’t mean that they are no longer of any use to you. Rose hips - which are the fruits or seed pods of rose plants - don’t ripen until the ...
15 Kale Plant Problems and How to Fix Them
Kale is one of my favorite crops. In a garden full of brassicas, we always save two plots for kale and that keeps us in fresh greens longer than any other species. But with all its hardiness and ...