New research appears to answer an old question about how the remarkable hormone Auxin works. Auxin is a sort of super-hormone that is the key to making plants grow. Two scientific teams--one in ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...

Weeds tend to be the number one issue for gardeners. The name can take on many different meanings. Let’s get down into the weeds on the various definitions. The definition of a weed is a plant out of ...