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 ...

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 ...

With winter soon approaching, you might be looking for affordable and easy ways to start your seeds without doing a ton of work—that’s where winter sowing can come in. “Because this [winter sowing] is ...

Gardening expert Luay Ghafari shares plant choices and techniques to help your garden stay productive through heat, drought ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tomatoes growing in a garden are covered in beads of water. - Susumu Yoshioka/Getty Images Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are a ...

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 ...

Experiments were conducted with winter- and spring-sown cover crops to compare drilling and broadcasting methods for establishing rye mixed with either purple or common vetch on beds. Results showed ...

SALINAS, CA – In the fertile growing regions of the central coast of California, scientists are looking for ways to increase organic production of strawberry and other crops. Because cover crops can ...