Here’s a special plant that is perfect for the tropical home garden: the bean tree, or frijol de palo in Spanish. More commonly called pigeon pea or gandul in English, Cajanus cajan arrived in the New ...

Selecting appropriate containers is key to growing pigeon pea on your balcony. Choose pots that are at least 12 inches deep to accommodate the root system. Make sure they have drainage holes to ...

During the dry season in Costa Rica, when the vegetation turns brown and the soil hardens, it’s difficult to grow any crops. But there is one plant that provides a bountiful harvest at this time of ...

Is your veggie garden done for the season? There are a couple things you can do; let the garden go fallow, unplanted, cover it up with clear plastic for 6–8 weeks of solarization or plant ...

ERADA, Madagascar, April 25 (Reuters) - Growing edible crops used to be so hard for Kazy Zanapijo in drought-prone southern Madagascar that she would often have nothing but wild plants and cactuses to ...