gardening
My Ever-Escalating War Against Gophers
The grisly task of protecting a garden from one of nature's best-adapted animals.
Backyard Biotech: Cloning Your Garden
Cloning new tomato plants is free and almost effortless. It's also fascinating and weird.
Frida Kahlo's Garden Takes Root in the Bronx
The New York Botanical Garden's new show 'Frida: Art. Garden. Life' shows off the trailblazing artist's green thumb.
This Food Bank Is Using Compost from an Illegal Cannabis Farm
Sixty bags of compost seized by Welsh police after a raid on an illegal cannabis farm have been donated to a local charity. Volunteers are using the fertiliser to grow produce that supplies its food bank.
New Zealand Gangs Are Making Peace and Mowing Lawns
Members of the notorious Mongrel Mob and Black Power gangs will soon be worker as landscapers in an effort to give them a legal source of income.
Gardening Is Better Than Antidepressants for Some Mentally Ill Patients
UK eco-therapy program MindFood uses the growing and selling of produce and other foods to help residents recover from and cope with severe mental illness.
Now You Can Get Your Ketchup and Fries from One Plant
A new Franken-vegetable hitting gardening stores this spring lets you grow tomatoes and potatoes at the same time.
Smart Gardens Will Grow Your Plants Because You're Too Good at Killing Them
Bluetooth-connected flower pots and automated hydroponic systems take all the guesswork—and probably the joy—out of gardening.
Mobile Flower Pot Lets Plants Find Their Own Sunlight
Xiaolong Mu's smart gardening tool is about to make moving your ficus a whole lot easier.
Use an Algorithm to Print Out Your Next Garden
The garden of the future is born in a virtual world, of course, and it's weed-proof. And you can buy it on Kickstarter.
These People Are Growing Salad Greens in an Old Bomb Shelter
Underneath the Northern Line tube track in south London, a new underground urban garden is growing salad greens and microherbs that have never seen the sun. I went there to find out if it's just gimmick, or if will it upend how we view farming in the...
An Abandoned Rotterdam Water Park Is Now a Mushroom Farm
Two men have turned a sad, abandoned Rotterdam water park into an oyster mushroom farm, using the center's old damp, dank dressing rooms to hang bags of old coffee grounds for the mushrooms to grow in.