green garden 
When the last tomatoes are harvested and the vegetable garden begins to empty, leaving the beds bare until spring can seem perfectly reasonable. But bare soil is not resting. Rain …
A Komodo dragon walking across a dry Indonesian landscape repeatedly does something that looks almost snake-like. Its long yellow tongue shoots from its mouth, splits into two narrow tips, then …
A fruit tree does not have to spread into a broad, rounded canopy. With careful pruning and training, you can persuade its branches to grow in an almost two-dimensional pattern …
A bull moose walks through a northern forest carrying something extraordinary above its head: a huge structure made of bone that its body built in only a matter of months. …
A vulture drops from a wide circle in the sky and lands beside the remains of a dead animal. To us, the meal may look like something to avoid. As …
The reason why birds fly in a V formation is much stranger than simply staying together. Every bird creates an invisible trail of swirling air behind its wings. A bird …
A simple drip irrigation system can turn daily hand-watering into a mostly automatic routine without requiring professional plumbing. Instead of spraying an entire bed, drip irrigation moves water slowly through …
Bright orange, yellow, and red nasturtium flowers may look purely ornamental, but these fast-growing annuals can play a useful role in vegetable-garden pest management. Used correctly, nasturtium trap crop pest …
An electric eel does not carry a miniature battery inside its body. Instead, electric eel voltage is produced by thousands of specialized biological cells working together with extraordinary precision. Each …
You do not need rich garden soil, a permanent raised bed, or even a traditional backyard plot to grow vegetables successfully. Straw bale gardening turns an ordinary bale of straw …