Why mow when you can grow?' That question lies at the heart of an emerging movement that replaces turfgrass with tomatoes, ...

Older, bigger leaves have an unpleasantly tough texture, but can still be used to flavor soups, sauces and stews using what I call “the bay leaf method”: take a dozen or so large field garlic ...

'Marjoram is very easy to propagate,' explains Robin. 'You can take softwood cuttings in spring or summer. Just snip a ...

Large, deep-pink flowers turn to tart berries that are one of the earliest to ripen in spring. The yellow to red mushy berries are similar to the color of salmon eggs and look like raspberries.

The garden-worthy ones won’t produce edible fruit, but their leaves make good wrappers for steaming fish, chicken or maybe tamales. The hardiest, 6-plus-foot Musa basjoo, overwinters like a ...

Ms Campbell, says bay trees are also suited to a big pot and you can pick the leaves as needed. She recommends not planting them in the ground, as bay trees can produce new shoots from their roots ...