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Lamb’s Ear is a wonderful sensory plant for a child-friendly garden. Native to the Middle East, this perennial is known for ...

Access the Garden Planner on any device. Returning users: Bookmark this page and click the green button above. Growing a great vegetable garden involves juggling the needs of dozens of different ...

Introduce your little one to gardening with these easy-to-grow indoor herbs. You don’t need a whole farm, or even any outdoor space to start growing things with your child. Planting some seeds ...

It’s called the garden three-year rule which says that a plant will sleep its first year, creep its second and leap in its ...

Traditional companion planting, which involves planting different types of ... scientists have found that in fact there are definite benefits to adding diversity to your garden, primarily because ...

We thought this way we could associate a girl's birth with an opportunity to plant trees which could yield us great benefits in future thus eradicating the taboo of a birth of a girl child in the ...

Susan Fisher from the UGA extension joined us at 13WMAZ to share her advice on what to plant and how to get the best results in your backyard garden. Fisher highlighted the importance of preparing ...