The green spaces in cities – gardens, parks, roadside verges and urban woodlands – help stop cities from flooding. Gardens ...

Earlier harvests. Peppers grown from seeds or transplants usually take at least a few months to fruit after spring planting. Overwintered peppers, on the other hand, have already had a lot of time to ...

Overwinter your pepper plants for an early harvest next season. Depending on your region, you can grow them as houseplants or store dormant plants in a cool garage.

Six years ago, I bought a few fig trees on a lark. Each year, the trees get bigger, and produce a few figs I get excited about, and by mid-summer, the plant has dropped them and goes back to just ...

Plan your time so that you can plant your hedge as soon as the plants arrive. If this isn’t possible, make a shallow trench, ...