It's best to chop up and leave a thin layer of leaves in the grass. Rake excess amounts into a landscape bed or garden.

Fed up with invasive species and sterile landscapes, Douglas Tallamy urges Americans to go native and go natural

Trying to grow new grass? Read here to learn how to prevent birds from eating grass seed and destroying your lawn.

If you’ve started a garden over the past year, you may have fed your family with the produce you’ve grown. But have you smoked any of it? 

Don't worry, it's totally legal

Growing giant produce has taken off across the country during the pandemic. Seed companies say they saw a surge in home gardeners buying larger varieties, especially in the pandemic’s early months.

As “smudging” has been appropriated from Native American use, the selling of sage offers a cautionary tale for the wellness economy—one where the intentions of users can be subverted by suppliers, and many sellers have no idea of their impacts.

The lockdown has created a crop-growing revolution that enthusiasts say could transform how we think about nature, food security and our communities. Growing vegetables has long been hailed as one of the most beneficial of pastimes and an initial run on vegetable seeds in the early days of the Covid-19 crisis has resulted in a bumper crop of early seedlings, which gardeners are sharing using social media and community groups to spread the good news about the “good life”.

Got seeds? Seed sellers across North America have been overwhelmed by skyrocketing demand in recent weeks as home gardeners are preparing to grow their own vegetables in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lawns have proliferated since the rise of the suburbs in the mid-20th century. But their maintenance produces greenhouses gases and they are biodiversity deserts. Shifting attitudes to lawn care offers a giant eco opportunity. The question is, how?

How often should you mow your lawn? How often should you schedule lawn care services? How often do you need yard maintenance? These are all very common questions we get on a regular basis, especially from new clients looking at having a regular yard, lawn, and landscape maintenance. But it also depends on the time of year and the weather.

Greenhouses and solar panels both need to be placed in areas with a lot of sunlight – so why not combine the two? Semi-transparent solar cells could potentially be built into the glass roof panels of greenhouses, capturing light at wavelengths that plants don’t use anyway. Now, researchers at North…

Warm vs cool? 'Full-spectrum?' LED, CFL, or HID? Here's what you need to know about indoor grow lights for starting seeds, gardening inside, or houseplants.

They might be posing with their weapons in their hands, but they sure aren’t crouching down next to animals. No siree! Instead, they’re proudly posing next to the vegetables they ‘hunted’ in their gardens.

Although it has been revealed in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and smelling, they are still usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, they have been recorded making airborne sounds when stressed, which researchers say could open up a new field of precision agriculture where farmers listen for water-starved crops.

This Hiroshima bonsai tree, now in the U.S. National Arboretum, survived the atomic bomb in 1945, but its history was only revealed in 2001.

When two boxes packed with ferns and grasses survived the six-month ocean journey from London to Sydney in 1833, gardeners rejoiced.

Environmental crisis clouding scientific objectivity about plants’ feelings, says botanist

Turning your perfectly unnatural (yet impressively green!) lawn into an imperfectly wild(ish) piece of land requires a little time and energy at first.

Roundup is everywhere. In fact it is the most used herbicide in the world. Its in your food, on your lawn and in your garden. Worst of all, the real risks of chronic roundup exposure are just now being realized. This complete roundup exposure guide will help you avoid the risks of Roundup, and help you decide what to do if you have been chronically exposed.