Bone meal fertilizer is a great source of nutrients for many varieties of vegetables and flowers. Try it on these plants for ...

HUNGRY FRUIT: Squash are heavy feeders, meaning they thrive in soil with high fertility. If you don’t have rich soil, you can add an organic fertility source before planting squash, and/or apply a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Squash plants are not only prolific producers, but many types, both summer squash and winter squash, also get quite large. Their ...

I have a small cookbook with just zucchini squash recipes. It comes in handy on those summer days when my kitchen counter is ...

Boost your squash harvest with these companion plants.

Hopefully you have most of your garden planted, or will have it planted in this next week. Now it's time to feed those plants the right way, without going broke.

A Three Sisters garden turns an ordinary backyard patch into one of the smartest planting systems around. Corn shoots upward ...

May is the transition time. Spring blooming plants settle into summer, peach and plum trees hint at the coming harvest, pomegranate flowers swell at the base, promising a plentiful fall crop. Watering ...

STEMMING THE PROBLEM: Squash vine borers kill squash plants by burrowing into their stems. A few preventive measures can save gardens from a squashless growing season. Photo by Chloe Lieberman Your ...