Trellises are the easiest way to expand your garden, whether you're growing ornamentals or edibles. In the Northwest, trellising tomatoes, cucumbers and other plants makes them less susceptible to ...

Gardening can be a lot of work, but there are different growing techniques that gardeners can use to help save some work and their back! One of those techniques is using a trellis to grow vining crops ...

These hanging gourds are slowly ripening to be harvested, peeled and transformed into loofa sponges for household cleaning and other uses. A sturdy trellis is required to support the incredible growth ...

Nope, I have disappeared from the blogging world; I’m just swimming in squash. Actually, my other job has been quite busy and keeping me from crafting, weeding, preserving, and writing. Sigh.

Winter squash are named for their keeping qualities — an important trait when the root cellar was your supermarket — but they are already a month or more off the vine as they wait out fall’s shift to ...

While 'Spineless Beauty' and 'Space Miser' may bring to mind people around us, this time of the season they are a ubiquitous presence in many summer gardens. They are among the 30 varieties of squash ...

Editor's note: Chronicle staffer Jane Tunks, a novice gardener, is using The Chronicle's rooftop garden as her classroom, with Fred Bové and Kevin Bayuk from the San Francisco Permaculture Guild as ...

The tromboncino squash in Nancy Howell’s garden plot doesn’t resemble the trombone for which it’s named but, rather, a french horn. “This is what happens when you stay away for one day,” she says, ...