After the initial potting of your indoor and outdoor plants, keeping them alive becomes your most important – and potentially most stressful – task. Knowing when and how much water to give plants is ...

Wicking beds and self-watering plant pots can produce veggies, herbs, and flowers with less water, and are simple enough to build yourself. Here's how to create one from a food-grade plastic barrel.

Self-watering planters are great for people who are always forgetting to water their plants, but you cannot forget to keep the reservoir from emptying because it will cause the wicking system to dry ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A planting project with roots in sustainability is blossoming at Western Michigan University. Crews from Landscape Services have potted and placed 66 self-watering planters across ...

It's hard to get stuck into gardening when you're renting or don't have much space to play with. But if you put it off until you're in "the perfect home" it may never happen — and you'll miss years of ...