As much as we all love doing work in the garden, gardening in the baking sun can often be too much for our bodies, even with ...

Vegetable plants need nutrients to produce a healthy crop. Learn how often and when to fertilize your vegetable garden based ...

Time for Fried Green Tomatoes! Fried green tomatoes with homemade dipping sauce are a perfect southern side dish or snack for ...

Okra fans will enjoy this global tour of okra recipes that include Greek Okra and Tomatoes, Round Steak and Okra Gumbo and Brazilian Chicken and Okra.

Companion planting has many benefits, but if you want your okra plants to flourish and produce abundant harvests, keep them ...

Water is the best tool against heat. Keeping the soil consistently damp down into the root zone ensures you’re giving plants ...

Another option is to use a plastic bucket, such as an old 5-gallon paint bucket or any plastic container about that size. Use ...

Leary, founder of The Dallas Garden School, shares her tips for making the most of the fall growing season in North Texas. It ...

Rabun County native Joey Davenport displays this sizeable cabbage he grew in his garden on the east side of Clayton.

Food scarcity continues to be a persistent issue here in southeast Bakersfield. The city and some non-profits are looking into different ways to bring more food ...

I enjoy trying new crops in my garden. Among the most recent are herbaceous tarragon and cowpeas, both introduced this spring. Okra is another that I’ve planted over the past three years, but ...

Walking through the rows during each hot, Arkansas summer, the tomato and okra plants would make my skin itch. The mosquitos from the nearby rice paddies would swarm, and I would try and swat them ...