Whether you save your own or ask your local coffee shop to fill a jar for you, used coffee grounds can indeed be used to fertilize many different types of houseplants, including African violets, ...

Philodendrons are extremely popular houseplants. They are low maintenance and very forgiving of a variety of conditions and some neglect. This makes them popular, but people also love ...

A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, ...

With a budget of Rs 10,103 crore, the mission will promote high-yield seed varieties, expand cultivation, and improve post-harvest processes, aiming for self-reliance in edible oils and reducing ...

Tobacco plants have been engineered to contain creatine, a compound that is mainly stored in our muscles as a source of energy and is a popular exercise supplement. Researchers are now testing the ...

In addition to eggplants, we got rid of prickles in a desert-adapted wild plant species with edible raisin-like fruits. We also used a virus to silence the expression of a closely related gene in ...

But there are some great perennial herbs and edible plants — ones that last at least two years, but many much longer — that require minimal effort to grow and have on hand for your cooking.

Err on the side of too dry; water plants when the top two inches of soil is dry to the touch. Large green leaves might come to mind when you picture a philodendron but this popular houseplant is ...

Although straight combining, overall, results in higher yields, there still will be some yield loss using the method, and certain edible varieties don’t lend themselves well to direct harvest.

Edible plants have been sown in public spaces in Cornwall thanks to government funding, says Cornwall Council. The local authority said it had been allocated £975,000 from the Shared Prosperity ...