Do you know the secret to growing a year's worth of basil from a small plant purchased at the grocery store? I didn't, which ...

But, as any experienced gardener knows, there’s a little trick to keeping your basil bushy and your dishes flavorful – pinching off the flowers. This simple practice might seem like just anoth ...

You can start with a simple and cheap pot of supermarket basil and turn it into your own large supply to last you all year.

Fruit. Although kiwi vines generally need a colder winter than Southern California’s in order to flower and fruit, the Fuzzy ...

Marigolds are beautiful flowers that not only liven up gardens but also repel nematodes, aphids, and mosquitoes with their signature smell. By planting marigolds around vegetable patches or flower ...

Winter weather may be on the wane, but it will still be a while before we can get outdoors and work in the soil. Even so, ...

It is a hybrid between camphor basil and sweet basil. Like many other hybrid plants, African blue basil is sterile, which helps to explain its extravagant flowering; when a plant does not form ...