Garden

My mom and I both love to grow corn. There's something amazing and magical about those tall wavy plants and the ears that spring into physicality before your eyes. It's American as can be; the cultural significance is as mysterious and nuanced as crop circles. And, according to my favorite garden...

Earlier this month, an Oak Park, Mich., woman came face to face with the prospect of hard time for the crime she'd committed: nurturing tiny baby pea pods, little baby zucchinis, and sweet, juicy tomatoes in her front yard. I know! Young people these days. I'm shaking my head, too. Ninety-three...

A fungus is quickly wiping out most of North America's bats. Bats eat vast quantities of bugs that would otherwise eat crops, so if researchers can't save them, U.S. agriculture will suffer.

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Join the Home Depot Garden Club and get an occasional email with gardening tips, product reviews, and coupons. It's a combo of a soft sell for Home Depot garden products and useful gardening tips that are widely applicable. If you are joining just for the coupons, the subject line of the emails you...

Get a free packet of seeds from One Seed Chicago, an organization devoted to greening urban places. This deal is only available while supplies last. You do not have to live in Chicago to take advantage of this deal. Share your name, address, email, and whether you are an educator or if you are...

When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the...

After spending Memorial Day weekend helping my in laws plant flowers and finish up a garden, I'm about gardened out. But for those of you who still want to get a garden put together now, there's a new blog that will help you put on together quickly and economically, even if you profess to having a...

Chances are if you have a garden, or anything growing in your yard, then you probably have weeds growing too.Instead of going to all the hard work of pulling, cutting back or spraying them with weed killer, take the easy way out and turn it into a weed garden that you can easily harvest and eat....

The little round balls made of red terra-cotta clay, as police at a World Trade Organization protest a few years back learned, are not bombs. At least, not in the traditional sense. Neighborhood groups and truly "grass-roots" activists around the country are taking back abandoned properties and...