Even for those of you who have no kids, or those who still act like kids, there is something about gardening in here for you.

September signals the arrival of fall, but it's also a great time to plant certain vegetables. The ideal crops to plant ...

Dear Master Gardener: I was given a small plant as a gift last spring. It grew into a gigantic plant with striking leaves and spiky pink seed pods. I've learned it is a castor bean plant. I'd like to ...

The sign on the bushel baskets read, "Bean seeds for children to play with," the baskets half-filled with dry beans of many colors. They'd been placed on the ground in the Fedco Seeds booth at the ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

“Life is a process of planting seeds for the future. This is how Adam (from adama, the Hebrew word for earth) got his name. For the virtue of earth is found in the plants that grow out of it and in ...

Yesterday, I complained of my lameness when it comes to starting seeds. I should have talked to Josh Kirschenbaum first. As product development guy at for a little more than 10 years (which sounds ...

Providing the right environment for your seeds to germinate can be tricky, which is why you should use this clever hack using ...

Q: A friend of mine gave me some seeds of castor bean. I understand the plant is very poisonous but it is beautiful and I would like to grow it. Someone else told me it might be illegal to grow. Your ...

Question: This is the second year I've had problems growing green beans in my garden. Something is eating the seeds. I dig around where I planted and there is nothing, no beans that haven't sprouted, ...

Left: The author's Granny Ruby Haynes Caudill, 97, was a postmistress and seamstress. She passed on the bean seed and the stories that went with them. Right: Katharine Campbell Haynes and William ...