The Advantages of Raised-Bed Gardens

The following is an excerpt from Mortgage Free! Innovative Strategies for Debt-free Home Ownership, Second Edition by Rob Roy. It has been adapted for the Web.
French intensive or “biodynamic” gardening involves the use of several “raised beds” of about four feet in width—the maximum width allowing the gardener to reach the center from either side—and [...]

Video: How to grow veggies in a pot

Short on space? You can grow a great crop in containers, too. Here’s how

Great outdoor eats

Food Network’s Guy Fieri shows how to cook an unforgettable alfresco dinner

Natural Polycultures: Mimicking Nature in Your Veggie Garden

The following is an excerpt from Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Second Edition by Toby Hemenway. It has been adapted for the Web.
Nature binds plants into interdependent communities and associations. Indigenous people, too, have crafted plant combinations that weave synergies among species. In the past two decades, ecological designers also have blended plants [...]

Top 10 western gardens

You don’t have to know a zinnia from zoysia to be wowed by the these dazzling gardens