Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit crops. Bramble plants (blackberry and raspberry), like deciduous ... so be ...

YOU INTRODUCED ME TO A BAY PLANT YEARS AGO. AND IT’S FUNNY ... Do you love cooking with local ingredients? With an herb garden, you can cook with greens from your own windowsill.

As an alternative to an in-ground garden near your kitchen, you can locate pots of herbs on a sunny back porch, deck or patio ...

The basil plants I bought at Trader Joe’s in the spring overperformed — one in a pot by the front steps, the other in the herb garden that was more than 4 feet high with glossy dark leaves.

If you want peppery greens to spice up your vegetable garden consider growing mustard greens and arugula, also known as ...

What this means is you don’t need a lot of room to cultivate an herb garden that will serve you well this fall and winter. You can plant herbs in the ground or in a raised bed, but if you only have a ...

If an herb is a perennial in your particular growing zone, then it won’t need much in terms of winter protection, according ...

5 things to do in the garden this week ... to the US and Australia. Herbs. Chamomile (Matricaria retutita) is a cool-season herb and now is the time to plant it. Seeds germinate easily in average ...

And since you don’t generally need more than one to a few plants of each type of herb, a nice container herb garden does not have to include a huge number of pots. Don’t wait for spring to ...