Insects are attracted to landscapes where flowering plants of the same species are grouped together and create big blocks of color, according to new research.

If you’ve ever seen lilac bushes crushed by snowdrifts, then budding on a warm day just a few weeks later, you may wonder how plants tolerate such extremes.

A great many plants have evolved sticky leaves, stems and seeds, including some you likely know – such as petunias and tobacco.

Some of the fruits and vegetables you buy have seeds in them. Can you plant those? It depends.

Many Americans are now experiencing an erratic food supply for the first time. Among COVID-19’s disruptions are bare supermarket shelves and items available yesterday but nowhere to be found today.

The first days of spring – brighter and warmer – are a biological trigger for female bees to wake up from hibernation and begin to build future colonies.

The coronavirus pandemic has set off a global gardening boom. In the early days of lockdown, seed suppliers were depleted of inventory and reported “unprecedented” demand.

Millions of Americans enjoy feeding and watching backyard birds. Many people make a point of putting food out in winter, when birds needs extra energy, and spring, when many species build nests and raise young.

For years, Toni Genberg assumed a healthy garden was a healthy habitat. That’s how she approached the landscaping around her home in northern Virginia.

Trees and vegetation in urban heat islands turn green earlier in the year but are less sensitive to temperature change than vegetation in surrounding rural regions, according to a new study.

The tomato’s path from wild plant to household staple is much more complex than researchers have long thought.

Rural school gardens get students back in touch with their food, a new study finds.

What’s not to like about gardening? It’s a great way to get outdoors, away from everyday routines, and to exercise your creativity.

When I answer my office phone as an extension vegetable specialist, from time to time it’s someone asking how they can get recognition for growing a huge tomato, possibly the biggest one ever.

About eight years ago, 10 families (including mine) and others started a small community garden in Saskatoon.

If you are having tomato fruit set problems try this simple toothbrush trick to get more tomatoes!

f you have a hummingbird feeder filled with sugar water, you might have the impression that all that hummingbirds need to live a healthy life is to sip sweet drinks all day long.

In this video, I give you my 5 top tips on how to grow a ton of passionfruit all from just one passion fruit!

Should tomato plants be pruned or not?

In today's episode, we look at how to grow broccoli - specifically growing the broccoli variety called green magic broccoli.

On a bright spring afternoon in late April, roughly 75 people gathered at the first Camp Fire restoration weekend at a farm 20 miles southwest of Paradise, California.

You might not really be sure you saw what you think you saw when the first one shows up.

Many scientists believe that halting global warming at 1.5°C will require us to invent Negative Emission Technologies – machines that can suck climate warming gases like carbon dioxide (CO?) from the air.