Cleaning the "Dirty Dozen" (aka the 12 fruits and vegetables most likely to be covered in pesticide residue) is no joke. Here ...

With these vegetables, the more you pick, the more they produce.

You don’t have to wait for your ugly old stump to rot away, because it’s easy to cover up a tree stump and turn it into a raised garden bed. Here’s how.

Every gardener who plants tomato seedlings does so in the hopes of a huge harvest. Increase your chances by planting these ...

Your fruits and veggies spend plenty of time out in the environment where they can be exposed to bacteria, viruses, and other contaminants. So you may be wondering what’s the best way to wash your ...

A: The spinach leaf miner, also known as the beet leaf miner, overwinters in the soil as a pupa. The adult fly emerges and ...

It turns out that many of those fruit and veggie scraps you've been tossing in the compost can be more than fit for ...

In a previous column, I mentioned last fall’s annual count of California monarch butterflies was only 12,260. This contrasts ...

And do you really need to rinse prewashed lettuce?

Michigan health officials are advising consumers to buy whole heads of lettuce and other greens and avoid bagged salads.

Early reports have linked lettuce to the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak. Learn the proper steps to wash, handle, and blanch ...