Organic Gardening

Backyard gardening can improve your mental health with minimal effort on your part. Learn how from landscape designer Doug Scott.

If you're worried about food shortages and supply chain issues, growing a victory garden will help you be more self-sufficient.

Making your backyard eco-friendly will save you water, electricity, money and time. Here are ways to make your yard beautiful and environmentally friendly.

Why trash Christmas trees? Instead, recycle them, allowing them to naturally return to the earth. Here are tips on how to reuse real Christmas trees.

Growing a vegetable garden outdoors can be difficult, but Miracle-Gro's Twelve Indoor Growing System takes the guesswork out of the process.

Mulching is a natural way to build up soil and add nutrients, but if you let your leaves stay where they fall they can create a natural habitat for pests and some diseases. If you put your leaves in a compost pile you may notice that many are still intact while the vegetable matter is broken down.

Applying mulch to your garden or foundation planting beds is a great way to prevent weeds, retain moisture, enrich the soil, and add visual appeal.

Watch this video for tips on how to kill weeds in a gravel walk or driveway without herbicides using common household items.

As long as there have been farmers, there have been birds trying to eat their crops. And throughout the ages, farmers have tried to come up with ingenious ways to scare them off. But do scarecrows in your garden really work? Read on to find out.