Expert tips for growing food in all four seasons
All food has a season where it tastes best, and understanding that can help you grow and cook food that will astound your guests, says chef Alice Waters.
All food has a season where it tastes best, and understanding that can help you grow and cook food that will astound your guests, says chef Alice Waters.
At-home gardening can be a fun and sustainable tool, but don’t expect to grow an avocado tree from your studio apartment any time soon.
Even for the purple loosestrife, or Lythrum salicaria, rapid evolution has limits. Knowing this can help with conservation.
The only sister of PopSci’s founder, botanist and educator Eliza Ann Youmans most often appears in biographers of her brother. This is her story.
Everything can be a home to one of your beloved plants. They only need one thing to be perfect—a drainage hole.
Scientists at the UF Space Plants lab have successfully germinated the first-ever crop of plants in regolith, or lunar soil.
Resin hardened into amber gives AMNH paleontologists a look at fossilized insects and plants as prehistoric as the Cretaceous period.
No Mow May doesn’t just have to take place at home. Some US cities are relaxing grass height requirements to get businesses and other land owners to boost pollinator habitat.
From leaves to roots, here are all the things you should check out to make sure your plant isn’t sick or infested with bugs.
Peat moss is well-loved by gardeners, but it might be better to leave it in the ground. Try these alternatives for many of peat’s most important attributes.