Snow blankets your yard, the garden beds sit frozen solid, and most people assume planting season still sits months away. That’s exactly when savvy gardeners grab recycled containers, a handful of ...

This beginner-friendly guide explains how to start a vegetable garden with indirect and direct seed-sowing methods. Homegrown vegetables are one of life’s greatest pleasures, but it can be expensive ...

This week, we will take a look at some of her very clever methods for plant propagation. Mother Nature has planted numerous ...

If you've never practiced winter sowing, you're in for a fun and unique experience that ignores some of the rules you've learned about seed starting. For example, seed packet instructions on when to ...

Tomatoes growing in a garden are covered in beads of water. - Susumu Yoshioka/Getty Images Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are a culinary staple, and for good reason. A tomato offers nearly 20% of ...

Different cover crop application methods and timing of those applications were evaluated at Ivy Tech in Lafayette, IN. Cover crop treatments are highlighted from right to left which corresponds to ...

Mira M. of Sebastopol asks: What does “planting in hills” mean? I overheard a few people talking about doing this when planting his or her vegetable seeds and I didn’t get a chance to ask them what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Ekaterina Vasileva-Bagler / Getty Images Homegrown vegetables are one of life’s greatest pleasures, but it can be ...