Companion planting focuses on figuring out what vegetables, herbs, and flowers grow well together. It's all about nurturing ...

Oregano begins to emerge fairly early in the spring and produces plenty of leaves by late spring as vegetable seedlings are ...

Traditional companion planting, which involves planting different types ... Combine crop plants with other annual or perennial plants in the vegetable bed. Herbs are desirable crops themselves, and ...

Plant carrots and leeks together on the allotment or vegetable patch to protect against a number of pests. Leeks repel carrot fly and carrots repel onion fly and leek moth. Make sure companion ...

Nasturtiums act as effective trap crops by being the more desirable plant for common garden pests. This leaves the trap plant to be treated or removed, allowing the producers, like these tomatoes ...

Growing a small kitchen garden is possible with the right plants, efficient use of space, and simple practices like container ...

You’ve thought of everything — varieties of vegetables, spacing, light exposure, companion planting … I could go on and on. This is just the best!” ...

Local farmer Ned Birkey offers home garden planning tips. Also, see what gardening workshops are coming up in Monroe County.

It is easy to grow herbs and vegetable plants in containers. We are in the middle of our vegetable growing season, which began in August, and the plant that I am thinking that everyone could grow ...

From growing herb plants to creating your own vegetable patch ... Richard argues. He says: "Companion planting is selecting plants to grow together that can offer some form of benefit to each ...