Mulching Tips For the Organic Gardener
Late fall is a good time to mulch - and protect your outdoor plants. Learn more.

How to Start a Flower Garden
Add Beauty to Your Life by Growing Flowers- An Easy-to-Follow Plan for Starting a Flower Garden.

Easy Ways to Compost
Don't throw it away! Compost it! It's better for the environment and for your gardens.

Sedums in a Shoe
Show off your spring flowers in an old boot!

Bringing Herbs Indoors
If your area has not had a killing frost yet, you may still have time to bring your herbs indoor for year-round fresh ingredients.

Don't Become Blue: Easy Tips for Growing Blueberries
10 tips for growing blueberries

Spring is Here! Time to Plan your Flower Garden.
Easy to follow stpes for beginners. Flowers add color, beauty, and cheer to yards and landscapes everywhere. Here are some good tips on how to get started.

Banana Peels Can Even Shine Your Shoes
They can do a lot of other things too. Learn more.

A Gardener's Guide to Frost
How to predict when it's coming and what to do about it It's fall. Temperatures begin to cool down, but your gardens still look so nice. How do you know when frost may hit ? Learn the signs and precautions you should take.

Wait! Save that milk carton for my garden!
Recyclable gardening ideas. Don't throw it away! Reuse it for your garden! Check out these new uses for old things.

Weekly Wisdom
From the Farmers' Almanac Looking for a more natural moth ball remedy? Ever wonder what cloves are? Find the answers and more here.

What is a Shamrock?
The shamrock is more than a symbol of luck, it has vast religious and historical meaning to St. Patrick and his followers.

Tired of Herbs? Plant for Pets!
Get kids involved with the garden this year. Plant a pet or zoo garden.

What Is Snow?
For some areas, it’s time to break out the snow shovel. Here are a few facts to think about when you clear the driveway.

How to Build a Green Roof
Here are a few practical hints for greening your roof.

Grow Flowers Indoors
Here's a simple pick me-up for the winter doldrums that will bring some spring indoors!

Don't Throw Out the Egg Carton
It Can Be Recycled For Many Household Uses Egg cartons make it easy to sort, organize and house screws and bolts. They have many other uses too.

What is aloe good for?
Aloe, a popular houseplant, has a long history as a multipurpose folk remedy.

Got Rain? These places don't have much!
Top Ten DRIEST Places in the USA Rain, rain where are you? Imagine receiving less than 10 inches of rain in an entire year? It happens in these ten US towns.

15 Easy Water Saving Tips
For Inside and Outside Saving water is a great way to live more resourcefully. Check out our Farmers' Almanac water conservation tips here.

Recycle Your Christmas Tree
The holidays are here, and so is one of the best times of the year for watching your waste.

5 Ways to Landscape without Going Broke
Tricks and tips on ways to cut costs but enjoy your yard more.

Natural Ways to Keep Bugs Away!
Summer is such a wonderful time, but those mosquitoes can really be a pain. Learn how to naturally keep them away.

Easy Ways to Preserve our Earth
We can all do something to help preserve our earth. It doesn't have to be difficult.

A Thorny Problem
Musk Thistle Plants: How to Control This Prolific Weed How to prevent and get rid of this European import.

Fresh From the Farmers’ Almanac Kitchen: Recipes From the Garden
Try these great recipes for summer fresh vegetables and herbs.

Uninvited Garden Guests: and some natural ways to discourage them
Learn how to naturally discourage deer, slugs, moles and other pests from visiting your garden.

Garden-opoly
Each player buys garden favorites, collects Clay Pots and trades them in for Greenhouses. Sounds easy enough - but add aphid infestation, water bills and a dandelion outbreak and it becomes a little more difficult... and a lot more...

Farmers’ Almanac Top Recycling Ideas (beyond paper)
May 27, 2008 12:18 AM

Easy Ways to "Greenify" Your Home
June 30, 2008 12:15 AM

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mold Removal and Didn’t Know Who to Ask
August 5, 2008 3:51 PM

Cleaning Products Exposed!
July 8, 2008 1:33 PM

The Poor Man's Fertilizer
January 29, 2008 9:08 AM

All About Frost
September 27, 2006 7:49 AM

Poinsettia Plants
December 5, 2007 11:56 AM

Healing Power of Marigold
July 29, 2008 2:52 PM

Move Thanksgiving?!
November 20, 2007 5:53 PM

Putting Your Garden to Bed!
December 7, 2005 11:36 AM

Planting Tips For Your Strawberry Pyramid
April 14, 2006 8:01 AM

Tree-Planting Tips
June 13, 2007 10:38 AM

Rose Gardening Tips
May 22, 2006 10:26 AM

Time to Plant Spring Blooming Bulbs
October 12, 2005 8:20 AM

Planting Easter Lilies in the Flower Garden
April 17, 2006 7:06 AM

Summer Mulching Time
July 11, 2006 10:43 AM

Planting & Caring for Blueberries in the Home Garden
May 1, 2006 8:33 AM

Fact or Myth? The truth about snails.
June 22, 2006 3:37 PM

Butterfly Garden
July 19, 2006 7:56 AM

Fall Lawn Care
September 22, 2005 9:03 AM

Transitioning Mums From the Pot to Your Garden
October 19, 2005 9:12 AM

What Seeds are Best for Early-Season Plantings?
April 11, 2008 9:43 AM

A Few Tips for Container Gardening
May 25, 2005 2:29 PM

Growing Shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day
March 13, 2006 1:44 PM

Potted Easter Lily Care
April 12, 2006 7:59 AM

Farmers’ Almanac Top Ten Gardening Hints
May 8, 2008 10:08 PM

Planting a Strawberry Pyramid
March 29, 2006 4:30 PM

Keeping Mosquitoes at Bay
July 14, 2006 11:56 AM

Garden Girl - Patti Moreno
Patricia Moreno, the Garden Girl, was born in raised in New York City. She grew up in Spanish Harlem on Manhattan and was educated at Nightingale-Bamford School for girls. Her path to Urban Sustainable Living began in the mid 1990's,...