Most winter annual weeds will germinate in late fall, grow during the winter months, and reach a reproductive stage in the early spring. Then they become more problematic, and then senescence, or die ...

Other edible plants we typically call weeds include burdock, lamb’s quarter and common mallow. Utah State University ...

They are only weeds because we, humans, deem them so. A weed is any plant growing in an undesirable place, so what does that ...

Japanese Maple trees are among the most rewarding plants thanks to their vibrant foliage that changes throughout the year.

As our gardens come alive with the first signs of spring, Monty Don has shared a ‘major’ February gardening job for beautiful ...

Spring blooms are the thing to focus on in February, says Monty Don, who recommended mulching garden borders or wherever your ...

Flavoursome garlic is an essential ingredient in so many recipes.  Easy to grow in the garden, it doesn’t take up too much space and it can be started off in the autumn or late winter in the ground or ...

Growing onions is easy to do, both from seeds and onion sets. Discover our best onion varieties and tips for how to grow them ...

Sensify is a new technology that can turn Zigbee switches, bulbs, and plugs into sensors with a firmware update. This could be how Philips Hue will bring ambient sensing to its smart lights.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of two award-winning writers: novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove, tracing lineages that run from a plantation in Maryland to a speakeasy in Washington ...

Luckily, garden centre benches are groaning under the weight of small pots of forced bulbs that are about to burst into flower, and they’ll propel your garden straight into spring in an instant.

A quarter of Gen Z adults – aged 18 to 27 – said they would not change a light bulb themselves because using a stepladder could be dangerous, while one in five fear the bulb could be “too ...