Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Plant it and it keeps coming up. Every year it’ll keep coming up. In fact, it’ll spread. So you do have to be careful about ...

Want to know how to harvest garden seeds for next year's supply? An expert broke down the most popular types, step by step. There’s something really magical about growing your own garden. Instead of ...

• When is the right time to harvest that outdoor pot plant in the fall? According to Grow It From Home co-founder Emily Gogol, there are two considerations at play: what’s going on in the plant’s life ...

It’s summer! This is the garden’s harshest and most challenging season of the year, Southern California’s gardening equivalent to winter in most parts of the country. Pay close attention to how much, ...

Let’s talk about something every gardener secretly (or not-so-secretly) obsesses over… harvest baskets! You know, those beautiful, functional, sturdy, sometimes colorful, and often totally necessary ...

Certain vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, peas, and beans have self-pollinating flowers and need little to no special care ...

I’m so excited. My banana tree made bananas this year! Do I need to do anything at this point other than just let them turn yellow? When should they ripen? — Douglas Bergeron The flowers of bananas ...

A pancreatic cancer survivor explains how gardening helps him feel at peace. With the songbirds once again winging tunes like thrown-together street bands and a rainbow of flowers bursting forth, I am ...