It's funny how some plants we carefully nurture indoors are so similar to those we consider weeds in the lawn. While successfully-grown African ... food, but if you have wild violets growing ...

If you’re cultivating containers of indoor or outdoor plants, herbs or vegetables, you need potting soil. Potting soil is different from topsoil and garden soil in a number of ways. Typically, topsoil ...

Limp, wilted plants. This can be caused by overwatering, poor drainage or root rot. Violets prefer evenly moist but not soggy ...

The same sites that described African violet as being easy to grow also mentioned that these plants do best with humidity of 80 percent to mimic their native environment: rain forests at altitudes ...

African violets are apparently also picky when it comes to soil and growers are advised to buy potting soil specially formulated for African violets. Not only that, but you should also treat ...

The most common reason African violets stop flowering is inadequate lighting. While these plants can develop sunscald if they’re kept in bright sun, they grow and flower best when provided with ...

While Scotts Miracle-Gro once saw its visibility improved through its exposure to cannabis, now it sees freeing itself of the ...

Growing Places, a Leominster-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting healthy food access and environmental sustainability, unveiled its new food processing center in Gardner on Wednesday. The facility ...

AgroLiquid, a leader in high-efficiency crop liquid fertilizer solutions based in St. Johns, Michigan, announced the acquisition of Monty’s Plant Food Company, a Louisville, Kentucky-based ...

Growing Places opened a new food processing center in the former Waterford St. School in Gardner. The center will process locally grown food for distribution to area schools and hospitals.