Vegetables grown for their underground parts have tasty roots, tubers, rhizomes, or bulbs. These structures are packed with carbohydrates and water for the plants, and deliciousness for us. These ...

Root beer plant, Piper auritum, is a tropical, perennial shrub or small tree. It can be grown outdoors or indoors and is valued for its large, fuzzy, heart-shaped leaves. Foliage gives rise to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But what’s the point? Well, for starters, it’s much cheaper to purchase bare root plants because, obviously, you don’t have all ...

Which option is best for you depends on the planting time, your budget, and other factors.

With the current chill in the air, I started thinking about planting more root vegetables. They grow well in our cool winter months and are delicious singly both hot and cold or combined as ...

The plant with numerous health benefits is easy to grow on your own. Start them inside, then move them outside. Here are more ...

Like the tiny seedlings in the greenhouse at the CamelBackyard Community Food Hub, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Phoenix’s New Roots Farm Stand has a lot of potential. Hameed Algezafee ...

When digging herbaceous perennials for dividing, observe the root system. There are five different types of root systems; offsets, stolons, rhizomes, taproots, and woody roots. It is the root system ...

A biological mechanism familiar to people who fast helps plant roots grow strong. The discovery provides an answer to a long-unanswered question and a deeper understanding of the 'mouths' of plants ...

The roots of plants can do a lot of things: They grow in length to reach water, they can bend to circumvent stones, and they form fine root hairs enabling them to absorb more nutrients from the soil.

You may have seen the term “bare root plants” in nursery catalogs and websites and wondered what it means. Basically, it’s exactly what it sounds like: Plants are shipped without soil or a container.