Q. I thought Natal Plum was frost-tender, but I’ve seen it survive several winters where frost occurs regularly. Is there a ...

Lucky for us, in the spirit of Appalachian ingenuity, there is at least one kind of briar that you can eat (mules don’t have ...

The Woolsey and Palisades fires both burned in large swaths of land in the Santa Monica Mountains. What can we learn from the ...

All during the long cold, dry winter there was not a hint of green, it looked like there was not going to be much of a weed problem to deal ...

Any time I’m starting to feel a bit under the weather or am craving a taste of home, I bust out my Dutch oven, add some oil, ...

From her kitchen in Michoacán, Imelda Campos Sebastián propagates the cuisine of the indigenous Purhépecha community—and makes some of the most delicious food in Mexico.

Wildflowers need three things to give us a copious spring bloom — seeds ... plants such as monkey flowers, phlox, sages, buckwheats and manzanitas will start blooming beautifully in our wild ...

It’s too early to plant tomato seeds, but not too early to buy them. This meaner-than-mean winter has got me uber anxious to get my fingernails dirty. But I will need to wait till March before I ...

Hybrid seeds, also referred to as F1 (first generation off-spring) hybrids, are the result of a controlled cross between two parent plants of the same species carefully chosen for their attributes.

I remember once foraging for wild mustard seed because Euell Gibbons described how to collect and process it in his book, ‘Stalking the Wild Asparagus,’ and I think I remember hearing or ...

Sow most garden seeds 6-8 weeks before transplanting, says Aufdenberg. Set a goal date to plant outdoors and then count back on the calendar the number of weeks (or days) it will take for the ...