Summer is arguably the best time of the year. The beaches open up, lobster rolls are aplenty, and everyone with a green thumb is headed out back to their garden to tend to the trellises of beautiful ...

Design a cutting garden and learn more about improving your vegetable garden. Join Cindy Haynes as she designs a cutting garden and makes flower arrangements, follow volunteers from Plant a Row for ...

Barbara Damrosch is a lifelong vegetable gardener who’s been one of the most prolific writers on that subject for decades, along with her garden-author husband, Eliot Coleman. The two are best known ...

Many vegetable gardeners get a jump on the growing season by starting their own seeds indoors and February is the time to begin seeding cool-season crops such as onions, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, ...

Although there are many old sayings such as, “Plant your potatoes when the oak leaves are the size of a mouse’s ear,” I would rather depend on soil temperature and calendar dates. Besides, who really ...

Zucchini or Summer Squash: The biggest tip is to harvest them when small and tender, so search under the foliage to find any ...

In beds, use small pruning shears to cut seedlings if they are close to another, or pull up the entire seedling of root crops like carrots. I hold one hand on the soil around the seedling to lessen ...

With days growing longer and temperatures getting warmer, it is time to start thinking about our gardens again. While the soil may still be frozen and the days of working outside in the warmth of the ...

There seems to be something in the air this time of the year that brings out the vegetable gardener in all of us. Every spring, new gardeners discover growing their own food. And veteran gardeners ...

In Florida, we are fortunate to have two growing seasons for growing vegetables. In the spring (actually late winter), we can plant warm-season crops like beans, tomatoes, squash, peppers, and ...