Before you find yourself desperately trying to protect plants from brutal heat, start off by choosing options for your food garden that are already adapted to high temperatures and sweltering humidity ...

Since you can walk on perennial peanuts—as long as foot traffic is light—they're popular as a weed-suppressing groundcover or lawn alternative. Their small, pretty yellow flowers attract butterflies.

Growing peanuts at home is fun, hugely satisfying and often easier than you may think. Known by many other names such as ...

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SPRING VALLEY, Ill. -- Flowers of all shapes and sizes surrounded Larry Smith's house in Spring Valley this past summer, but what usually caught people's eyes was the 5-foot-tall tobacco plant.

Not long ago, a neighbor gave us some peanuts she said were from Peru. Since we’ve had good luck growing peanuts, we were excited to see how this variety would do for us. Our new Peruvian peanuts are ...