Walk into any grocery store, or better yet, your local farmers’ market this time of year, and you’ll likely see bins overflowing with seasonal squash in dozens of colors, shapes and sizes. Knowing the ...

Smiling through the overwhelm of the huge late-season harvest, gardeners often deploy the genial phrase, “dealing with abundance.” Although mounds of produce is a gift like no other, it comes with a ...

It's fall, which means it's time to figure out which plants are going to work best for container gardens. Design expert Cindy Funes has some answers.

Dreaming of harvesting fresh vegetables from your own garden but limited by a small balcony, patio, or yard? Container ...

Carrie Schmidt-de la Fuente, a reference librarian at the Main Library, works consistently to procure donations in the ...

Don’t stop there, look for new ways to add a bit of fall to your front steps, balcony and garden beds.

Parsnips, celeriac, squash, Swiss chard and purple sprouting broccoli are happy to overwinter outdoors or wait out the colder ...

So that was summer – a wild mix of rainy days and seriously sunny days, but still a summer when we were able to fit in three ...

Butternut squash is ready to harvest in the fall. Here's how to know when it's ripe to pick from the garden, store and cure ...

Saving seeds doesn’t just stretch the gardening budget. It allows gardeners to carry forward the very traits that worked so ...