With a couple decades of experience, garden author Pamela Crawford has mastered easy and instant container gardens and pinpointed the best plants for the Southern landscape. Yet there was one area of ...

Pots, tubs, and half barrels overflowing with flowers add appeal to any garden, but container gardening can serve a practical purpose too. Container gardening is ideal for those with little or no ...

Save space in your garden by planting these sprawling vegetables in pots. It just isn't summer without zucchini in the garden. However, these delicious vegetables can take up a lot of valuable real ...

A raised container bed delivers all the benefits of traditional gardening without the back pain that can come from squatting or kneeling.(Getty Images / Getty Images/iStockphoto) Growing fresh veggies ...

Many gardeners choose to raise plants in containers or in raised beds. Those with limited gardening space and those who love patio accents find that containers fit the bill. Those with poor soil or ...

Outside Karen Gebbia's back door, a 12-by-6-foot raised garden bed is home to a who's who of plants: tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, oregano, mint, dill and strawberries. The Pennsylvania native ...

While 'Spineless Beauty' and 'Space Miser' may bring to mind people around us, this time of the season they are a ubiquitous presence in many summer gardens. They are among the 30 varieties of squash ...

Q: I planted acorn and butternut squash last winter from seed and they didn’t grow. Now they are growing. The acorn squash is doing really well. I thought winter squash would ripen in the winter. Will ...

Pumpkins may get all the credit as the favorite fruit of fall, but that doesn't mean butternut squash doesn't deserve its flowers, too! As far as fall flavors go, there's nothing like the nutty, sweet ...

Editor's note: Chronicle staffer Jane Tunks, a novice gardener, is using The Chronicle's rooftop garden as her classroom, with Fred Bové and Kevin Bayuk from the San Francisco Permaculture Guild as ...

There's nothing more disappointing than going to pick a yummy squash and instead finding your squash plants in distress, destroyed by some unwelcome bug. But don't worry: we're looking at ways to ...