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A small scale staple carbohydrate crop easy to grow in a garden, delicious and nutritious home grown alternative to rice.

Many people are getting back to the earth, growing their own food, and that includes growing herbs to use when you cook what you grow.

An easy tutorial on successfully growing poppies: Papaver rhoeas, and those like them.

Some plants have dropped all their seeds by winter's start, but the dried skeletons of the taller weeds and grasses continue to aid in the dispersal of late seeds.

Sunflower seeds are not only an edible snack, but they are large seeds easy for kids to hold and manipulate. Here's how to go about planting sunflower seeds for yourself.

Purple coneflowers or Echinaceas are fabulous perennial plants for use in a wide variety of gardening landscapes. See how to select and grow Echinacea plants.

Foxtail, a grass with a serious health risk to dogs, is the most common foreign body removed by vets. Most prevelant in the Southwest, the Foxtail grows across the U.S.

"Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear." (Phil Gramm)

Balm of Gilead is a perennial shrub with a lovely eucalyptus aroma. This fragrant herb has a rich and ancient history.

Find out how to use Joe Pye Weed in a Bog Garden setting and what it does as an old folk remedy.

A great inexpensive last-minute hostess gift is a bouquet from your garden.

The versatile dandelion is more than just a weed.

At Christmas, when it's cold in the north and deep snow may make it hard for wild animals to find food, decorate a bird's Christmas tree.

How to collect and obtain a variety of culinary spices for use in recipes.

Ornamental grasses are both attractive as a feature in the winter garden, but also can give needed food for winter birds.

A detailed discussion of how to add interest to the winter landscape through the use of seeds, seedpods and seedheads on plants.

Ornamental plants add a striking accent to landscape designs. Select plants that are adapted to the region to ensure long-lasting enjoyment and beauty.

Grasses don't just belong in lawns. When used in rock gardens, perennial beds, screens or as accent plants they become ornamental grass.

The foxglove is a stately plant that has been featured in gardens for centuries. This growing guide will help you care for, maintain and select the best foxglove.

A frequent frustration of gardeners in cold northern zone climates is hearing about perennial plants that their Southern neighbors enjoy. What plants will survive zone 3?

Bored with mud and grass through the winter? Use interesting seed heads, bark, foliage and bulbs to add colour and interest in the garden.

This Christmas tree ornament is inexpensive to make, and easy to construct, even for young children. It can be used as a holiday decoration or given as a little gift.

The Atlantic 10 bubble picture is becoming clear. Xavier is assured of a spot in the NCAA Men's basketball tournament. Rhode Island, Dayton, and Temple are close behind.

Making holiday decorations like this milkweed pod and pinecone ornament for the home is a tradition for most families at this time of year.

Our desire to have a lush, thick lawn is often short-lived once dandelions emerge in early May, dotting the once-green landscape with nickel-sized yellow flowers.

These English Roses are developed from Alba roses giving them the wild-rose daintiness, gently nodding flowers and a lighter scent than other English Roses.

With the cooling days of autumn, many summer perennials begin to cease their blooms. Gardeners can keep the color going for the autumn months by including these plants.

The four-wing saltbush exists all over the western portion of western North America, including some parts of southwestern Canada.

Easy to grow, disease free, and beautiful -- Inland Sea Oats are unique accent plants and a useful ornamental grass for shady areas.

In freezing conditions, wild birds could use a hand finding fresh water and food, and with a little ingenuity and some planning, you won't even need to buy a feeder.

Ornamental grasses are a hardy, beautiful choice for certain parts of the landscape.

While low areas in the garden are often landscape challenges - think wet - and plant a water garden.

Learn how to save seeds from your heirloom vegetables and plants that your grew this year. Saving Heirloom seeds allows you to grow the same ones again next year!

A look at some of the choices that can be made using native shrubs to xeriscape your landscape.

As summer winds down, there are blooming plants that will display rich textures and hues long into the fall. Here are a few plants that help extend the beauty of summer.

No complicated canning procedures are required - all you need are fresh cucumbers, a few other ingredients, and the power of the sun for this simple recipe.

A friend of mine says it was easier to move than kill off the invasive plants. I'm too stubborn for that.

Children can add novelty yarns, ribbons, dried grasses, etc. to a forked branch as a conclusion to a nature lesson or as a holiday decoration.

Roy Williams guided the North Carolina Tar Heels to the fifth NCAA crown in school history by knocking of the up-start Michigan State Spartans 89-72.

The annual battle with crabgrass is underway, with millions of homeowners turning to herbicides and hand tools to remove the lawn-marring weed.

Fall and winter interest helps decorate a flower garden beyond the growing season. Gardeners can look for plants that contribute autumn ideas to landscape plantings.

There are many varieties of desert plants growing wild, and many of them are wildflowers. Find out how to collect the seeds of these plants for your own garden.

Even if gardening space is limited to patio pots or window-boxes, there is no reason not to put on a wonderful cottage garden summer display.

January is a good time to prep your vegetable garden, plant cool season crops and get your seed starting supplies ready for the upcoming season.

Adding fresh, organic, edible flowers to your dinner salad or homemade dessert is fun and simple, and will easily impress your house guests!

Eupatorium purpureum and Ligularia stenocephala are large perennial plants matching the scale of big landscapes. These plants flower in summer gardens through autumn.

Explore the colors, textures, and sounds of a field while encouraging young children to imagine how animals live in grassy places.

Perennial gardens finish with a bang in autumn. Hot colors, made more intense by the changes in sun angle, render a garden complete for the season.

Some plants do best air dried, others with glycerin or silica. Tips for preserving plants and suggestions for plant varities to harvest are in today's article.

Anyone who has forsaken spinach because they've only eaten it from cans--or because of recent contamination scares--should consider growing it themselves.