We love these spring recipes because they are fresh, vibrant and homey. Use up all the best that the season has to offer like ...

Botany says anything that starts from a flower is classified botanically as a fruit. But in practice, we tend to classify foods by how we eat them. Therefore, we call a tomato a vegetable, because ...

We generally don't think of mealtime as a risky part of our day, but some foods require extra caution. About the experts ...

Luckily, there are effective options to prevent birdseed from creating a weedy mess in your flower garden. Non-seed bird food ...

Late winter is no time to hang up your gardening gloves. In fact, the quiet weeks before spring offer the perfect opportunity ...

By isolating resistant microbes from wastewater, scientists found that curcumin and emodin could slow their growth in the lab ...

So far, our winter weather has been rather wet, but not too cold. Still, make sure you have on hand a blanket of row cover for when the extra frosty winter nights occur.

Rhubarb is a hardy crop that can survive in any winter garden, but if you want bigger and more flavourful stalks, then there ...

The "before" photo shows a new garden bed with two young trees and a few freshly sprouted plants visible. The mulch and remnants of old plants speak of an older garden that has been cleared away to ...

Rhubarb is a hardy plant that thrives in cold weather, but mulching it now can help protect it from frost damage and promote ...

January feels like the dead of winter, but it’s actually a really useful “head start” month. You’re not filling beds yet, you’re setting things up so that when spring does arrive, you’re weeks ahead ...

My Grandmother was a very keen gardener – all weathers. Digging, weeding and chucking snails over the fence into the gardens ...