This year, grow an heirloom variety in your garden, save the seeds and play a small part in preserving plant diversity

Some like 'em hot; others like them sweet. With the incredible range of peppers available for home gardens, you can have your pick

Seed catalogs can help you discover what to grow in a garden — once you learn how to decipher them

You can get an early gardening fix — and save money too — by starting seedlings in the warm indoors

Pick the peppers and drink in the scent of lilies this month, while you mull over a mowing strip to make fall gardening easier

Be especially water wise this month as you sow seeds, tend to your lawn and plant edibles, grasses and flowers

Orange you glad for a citrus-fertilizing reminder? And don't forget the recommended doses of vegetable seeds and cold-hardy flowers

Bring in the bounty of tomatoes, savor the show of grasses and start seeding some cool-season plants

Abundant sun is yielding bountiful blooms in the garden this month, but don't forget to watch for pests, package some seeds and plan ahead

See how to start edibles from seed, then transfer the seedlings to a box on stilts to make harvesting more fun