Banana peels often end up in the garbage, but you can give them a second life in your garden or for your houseplants. Make ...

One of my dear friends from church asked my advice about growing bananas many years ago. I said yes you can because I saw a banana tree growing in the corner of the main teaching greenhouse at Ohio ...

Humans are adding vitamins to their water all the time, but why should we get all the fun? There’s evidence to suggest that fortifying the water you use to feed your plants might be just as beneficial ...

My ongoing interest in encouraging people to grow edible plants leads me to reiterate the multiple ornamental, cultural and edible uses of the lovely banana. The plants can enhance the appearance of a ...

This time of year, I get a lot of questions about growing banana plants — how to prepare them for winter, how to overwinter them, and how to get them to survive long term in North Texas landscapes.

I wrote last time about a flowering shrub called pineapple guava, a plant that produces fruit that resemble neither pineapples nor guavas. Today I’ll talk to you about banana trees that produce fruit ...

What has to be the most tenacious summer in long memory is at last loosening its grip, and we are facing something resembling the fall. The race to unearth sweaters from the dark recesses of the ...