Veronica Lorson Fowler

Why grow onions? Sure, they are cheap and plentiful in the grocery stores, but if you've never grown onions before, they're an easy, fun crop. You can even braid them into ropes for a beautiful and practical kitchen decoration that you can pull from throughout the winter.

A better understanding of how pollinators and other beneficial insects work — and their diminishing numbers — means factoring in how pulling away dead garden material can impact these vulnerable creatures.

Plant labels are one of the first things to look at when considering buying a garden plant, and they can be helpful, but they can be confusing and sometimes downright misleading.

It’s easier than you think.

These once rare plants are now everywhere - and affordable

Here’s a list of reasonably priced favorites requiring little maintenance

With this weird, long warm fall, it’s easy to put off putting your garden to bed for the winter. But weather can change very quickly in the Midwest, especially these days, and it's easy for it change overnight and dump several inches of snow on unprepared yards.

When you fertilize a lawn in the fall, grass plants are in a mode of taking nutrients down into their roots for storage — compared to spring and summer when it is taking up nutrients mainly to its leaves.

If you're taking great care of annual containers, they will be at their peak in July through September.

I have tended my Iowa garden for nearly 40 years now, but it was a persistent problem with my backyard lawn that made me break down and finally do what all the garden experts recommend as a first step when creating a garden in the first place -- testing the soil.

Many of our favorite annuals are prolific reseeders that scatter their seeds and return year after year.

Stake and support plants using things from your yard to do it for little or no cost.

Nursery beds allow you to coddle plants that might otherwise get lost in an established flower bed or border.

If you are seduced by its charms and don’t control it, it will take over whole portions of flower beds and lawns, choking out the flowers, vegetables, or grass you are trying to grow.

These hardy bulbs are not bothered by cold weather, deer or rabbits and often spread keep coming back for decades