Plants
How to Collect and Save Lettuce Seed
Don’t toss that lettuce that bolted! Collect the seed and give yourself and endless supply of fresh lettuce! It's easy. All you need is scissors & a paper bag.
Garden Trial: French Gold Filet Pole Bean
Looking for a pole bean that grows quickly, is highly productive, heat & cold tolerant, and actually tastes good? Look no further than French Gold Filet beans!
Jerusalem sage (Phlomis fruticosa)
A hardy, drought-tolerant perennial with lots of long-lasting yellow flowers in spring and summer. Easy care, it's a great garden plant for zone 4 and up
Garden Log: Ice Queen Lettuce
An old French heirloom crisphead (iceberg) variety lettuce with excellent summer heat tolerance. It can be grown year-round in USDA zones 9 and higher.
How to Make a Succulent Shade Garden
Think succulents are only for full sun? Think again! Many thrive in the shade. Here's everything you need to know to create your own succulent shade garden
Salvia Aurea (aka Golden Sage)
This easy care, drought tolerant, evergreen shrub has gray-green leaves year-round and showy rust-colored flowers in the the spring. A real garden standout!
Kalanchoe daigremontiana the “Mother of Thousands”
Kalanchoe daigremontiana aka "mother of thousands" is an easy-to-grow, low water succulent with striped, spear-shaped leaves and pink, bell-shaped flowers
The Ultimate Guide to Growing Artichokes
This easy-to-grow perennial offers great tasting veggies and pretty purple flowers year in and out. Here's everything to know to grow them in your garden.
Marniers Kalanchoe (Kalanchoe marnieriana)
Marniers Kalanchoe is an attractive succulent with round blue-green leaves. Drought tolerant, it grows 18 inches tall and has pink chandelier-like flowers
Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia Diversifolia)
Mexican sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia) is an attractive, easy to grow shrub that not only produces lot of flowers, but also helps improve your garden soil