I love growing tomatoes, especially tomato varieties that you can’t find in stores. Sometimes I’ll purchase heirloom seeds. Other times I’ll buy hybrid seeds. But many years ago, when I was...

Have you ever found a package of seeds in your seed stash and couldn’t remember what seeds they were? Or noticed a volunteer plant sprout up in your garden and couldn’t readily identify it? If...

Two years ago, I had a problem in a few of my raised garden beds. I remember waking up one morning and seeing my month-old pepper plants looking pretty ragged. I didn’t see any plant-chewing...

Whether you’ve just started gardening or have been doing so for years, you’ve probably heard of stink bugs even if you haven’t yet seen one in your garden. Stink bugs are members of the...

If you’ve ever grown plants from seed, you’ve likely dealt with a few headaches when doing so: aphids that arrive and start attacking your plants, gnats that won’t seem to go away, fungi and...

Given the increasing global use of commercial pesticides and the insecticidal immunity and resistance that many bugs have developed in response, gardeners sometimes have to think a bit outside the...