Scarecrows are a classic way of keeping your seeds and young plants safe from birds and deer. Best of all, they're a great ...

Here's what it costs to grow your own seedlings instead of buying garden starts from your local nursery or hardware store.

Louisiana First Lady Donna Edwards points out green beans, right, and kohlrabi, left, also called German turnip, a biennial ...

Sow the rose seeds approximately ¼-inch deep into the seed starting mix. Cover the seeds lightly with seed starting mix.

A cloche is also extremely useful for covering patches of self-sown seedlings previous to harvesting them for growing on. Hellebores are some of the first seedlings to appear, an early crop will ...

Spring arrives March 20 — 58 days from today, and as you see, I’m eagerly counting the days! My seed catalogs, dog-eared and ...

You may think winter is a quiet time for gardening, but certain tasks cannot wait. For best results, sow these herb seeds ...

Carrots are a great thing to have in the garden during our cool season. Since much of the plant is underground, and our ...

Winter sowing gives seeds the chilling period (stratification) they need to break dormancy and germinate. Seeds sown into ...

Think of a spring salad bowl and these are the crops you can directly sow, despite winter’s chill: leafy greens like spinach ...

Post-fire tree planting significantly accelerates forest recovery in burned areas, increasing regrowth rates by 25.7%.

Over the years we have “tested” nearly 50 different vegetables. Last year we decided to investigate cabbage, writes Pat Hitchcock, a.