gardening

News4’s Pat Lawson Muse spoke with City Blossoms Executive Director Rafael Woldeab and U.S. Botanic Garden Senior Education Specialist Lee Coykendall.

Now is the perfect time to plant garlic, kale and collard greens for spring. D.C. gardener and garden consultant Dominique Charles has tips on fertilizer, saving seeds and turning coffee bean bags into planters. 

If you can afford to hire someone to perform some services for you, you can see benefits ranging from better health to more free time.

When starting your home garden, listen to Dominique Charles, owner of Plots and Plants. Charles gives a few tips on how to grow your own food in your backyard. News4’s Erika Gonzalez reports.

All of the produce is grown organically and available to students at American University. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

What 2 R’s come before recycling? Reducing and reusing! Composting your coffee grounds, egg shells and more are one way to reuse things that you might have thrown away otherwise. Lauren Clarke from Dallas-based Turn Compost explains what you need to know to get started composting today.

News4’s Megan McGrath explains why it’s a bit too early to plant certain flowers in the garden.

Orchid flowers can last for weeks. Once the flowers die, it’s tempting to toss the plant. But you can get that $10 orchid to bloom again. Just be patient. It might take a year. The main tip for growing orchids is not to overwater them.

A Brooklyn woman wanted to help conserve some of the endangered plants of the world and beautify her own home at the same time. So she started growing plants in her apartment… and now has 1,100 of them. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories takes us inside an extreme green home.

News 4’s Erika Gonzalez talks with a D.C. flower shop owner about how to care for your house plants.

The pandemic has many spending more time in the yard gardening and doing other projects. News4’s Erika Gonzalez shows us how to keep lawns looking pretty this fall.

It’s getting cooler, but contrary to what you might think, autumn is actually a great time to plant.

The air is noticeably cooler and signs of fall, including chrysanthemums and pansies, are making their seasonal debut. September is the optimal time to purchase mums. Isaiah Weinstein is with Seasonal Celebrations and runs the pop-up shop on Massachusetts Avenue outside St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Northwest D.C. “When you’re looking for mums, you want to get them...

We may be in the midst of a pandemic, so getting your hands dirty and improving your home or garden might be the best thing you can do. News4’s Erika Gonzalez talks to an expert about how to care for some of her favorite fall flowers.

NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado explains the wellness benefits of gardening using ASMR.

Many people are gardening as they practice social distancing. “My garden has never been prettier,” one local with a green thumb said. News4’s Megan McGrath takes a look at Greenstreet Gardens.

The coronavirus pandemic has many Americans growing their own food for their first time. Experts say now is the perfect time to plant vegetables for a bountiful harvest. NBC’s Dan Scheneman reports.

Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports on what you can plant in your garden now and what you should wait to plant when the weather changes.