One of the true pleasures of growing your own food is eating vegetables that you can’t find in stores. From the crunch of fresh-picked peas right off the vine to the intense flavour of frost-sweetened ...

Why keep your flower garden and the vegetable plot separated? Learn about growing ornamental kale that is both delicious and beautiful. As you’d imagine, few food plants meet all these criteria.

Question: I have several giant “old growth” kale plants in my garden from last year. They have thick woody trunks, but are putting out leaves and the beginning of flower buds like mad. If I leave ...

Most of us think of pansies, violas, dianthus, snapdragons and petunias to decorate our fall-through-early-spring landscape. Another nice addition to cool-season flower beds is ornamental types of ...

Dear Helen: My kale plants survived the heavy snow and freezing temperatures, and I look forward to harvesting their nutritious greens again through early spring. My problem is the space they take as ...