The plants’ small, bright green rosettes send up little white flowers that form seed pods, beginning as early as late January. Dear Helen: Over the years, and despite my best efforts to pull the ...

Reveling in a glorious week of sunshine, but looking ahead to a week of wind and rain, I needed a garden fix. So I donned a pair of gloves and headed outside. Already the wind was shifting to the ...

Managing hairy bittercress early in container production can help growers improve their ornamental production. Its shallow root system makes hairy bittercress easy to control by hand weeding. Hairy ...

Managing hairy bittercress early in container production can help growers improve their ornamental production. Its shallow root system makes hairy bittercress easy to control by hand weeding. Hairy ...

AS WE NOW enter September, with its heavy dew on the lawn and yard, pestilence once again begins to raise its destructive head. Slugs will soon try to overrun your beautiful flowers and vegetables, so ...

On a freezing day in December 2021, I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin, to visit Simon Gilroy’s lab. In one room of the lab sat a flat of young tobacco and Arabidopsis plants, each imbued with ...

Kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collard greens and kohlrabi have unique nutritional values, and we think of them as distinct vegetables. Yet, they all share the same species ...

Now’s the time to get busy if you’re planning to grow some of your own plants inside from seed. Indoor seed-starting is on the upswing as a way to counteract the higher prices of mature plants. “It’s ...

Hairy bittercress is one of those plants that hurl their seeds in all directions to spread them effectively. A research team has now discovered that to do this, the plant uses a previously unknown ...

The world’s vegetation has a remarkable ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air and store it as biomass. In doing so, plants slow down climate change since the CO₂ they take up does not ...