Asparagus is the gift that keeps on giving—literally!” suggests The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Asparagus is a perennial vegetable that repays your patience with delicious spears year after year, and apart ...

Increase your harvest without increasing the size of your garden or workload. All you need is a bit of intensive planting, along with some low maintenance techniques. Invest some time upfront to ...

If you’re thinking about putting in a vegetable patch this season, you’ll have plenty of company. Raising edible plants is the fastest-growing trend in gardening. Whether you hope to ...

Vegetable gardens benefit from a consistent watering schedule and gardeners can help prevent weeds by adding a layer of mulch. Here are 12 tips for a successful garden harvest.

Although you might think that July is too late to plant seeds and seedlings, the month offers excellent opportunities for ...

Kathy Huber has worked for the Houston Chronicle since May 1981. She was Features Copy Desk chief before becoming the first full-time garden editor for the paper in 1988.

The garden is looking full and lush now, with leaves as deep green as they will ever be and many of the more luxuriant ...

Grow a bountiful vegetable garden in less space. Updated: May. 12, 2013, 10:00 a.m. ... it may be hard to image space for a bountiful harvest just outside your patio door.

Container gardening is a fantastic way to grow your own vegetables, especially if you’re working with limited space. Whether ...

How’s your vegetable garden coming along? At this point in the season, we all tend to feel overwhelmed by the frequency of the harvests from the plants we’ve been tending.

Gardeners have had a broad range of experiences with their vegetable gardens this season. Some planted early in May with the ...