When the VegHeadz started a perennial edible garden at the University of Florida/IFAS Leon County Extension Office, we really didn’t know what to expect. We would get a cutting here, a rhizome there, ...

These low-growing plants look beautiful and taste delicious. Orest Lyzhechka / Getty Images Ground covers have many benefits in the landscape—they can choke out weeds, control erosion on slopes, fill ...

Up next on our list of easiest edible plants to grow indoors is Ginger, which is extensively used in South Asian cuisine, and if you are fond of it, you could start planting it indoors. You don’t even ...

On a mild spring afternoon, naturalist Lisa Sanchez identified more than a dozen wild edible plants growing within 200 yards of the Shuts Environmental Library in Lancaster County Central Park. She ...

Ginger is an ideal plant for shady, damp areas of the landscape. You may be surprised to find it has many uses besides being a landscape filler. In a culinary sense you know ginger root, but did you ...

Last week I wrote about growing Swiss chard since everyone is spending more time at home. I will continue with that theme, because you can pick up three edible plants to grow while grocery shopping.

Growing your own food is cheap, sustainable and having the plants around spruces up even the dreariest room. Here are 11 edible plants that are super easy to grow inside or outside, in cities and ...

Months of hot, humid weather make our summer a challenge for many plants in our gardens. A wonderful group of plants called gingers thrive in the heat, however, and delight us with bold foliage and ...

I enjoy seeing residents grow some of their own food. It can be as small as growing a tomato plant on their balcony or as big as growing five acres of fruit trees. The amount of food grown doesn’t ...