Gardening and Your Zone

During early spring, the urge to get out in the garden and start planting almost becomes overwhelming. Stores are stocking up on gardening tools, and seeds are luring me in with the promise of a [ … ]

In one of my early years of gardening, I made a rookie mistake. I planted leaf lettuce — a lot of leaf lettuce. When those first early tender leaves started to appear out of the [ … ]

Bananas are a colorful, well-loved, widely enjoyed snack. They also are known for being a tropical food. If you’ve ever wished that you could grow your own bananas but are concerned that the climate where [ … ]