Starting your very first vegetable garden can feel both exciting and overwhelming. You’ve bought your seeds, you’ve got a patch of soil or a few containers ready—but now what? How deep do you plant ...

Here's how to space out your vegetable plants so you don't end up with an overcrowded mess.

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Depending on your USDA hardiness zone, October is an ideal time to plant cool-season vegetable seedlings that you can often harvest throughout the winter into early spring. For a successful harvest, ...

Enjoy your harvest sooner.

How do plants know what month it is? Plants don’t have an iPhone or a calendar to tell them what day it is. Instead, they rely on environmental clues. Since the Earth is on a tilt, the length of day ...

The time to plant summer vegetables is so close you can almost taste it! Seed displays and racks of luscious transplants at garden centers are both tempting. Which method of growing veggies should you ...

As a new season of the year approaches, novice gardeners who have leftover seeds might wonder if they should toss out their packets or hold onto them for next year. This could be especially of ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - As the weather warms up across Nebraska, it’s already time to get your garden ready. Even though the weather has been nicer to start the month of March, the weather can still ...

April is when the soil and air are finally reliably warm enough to start summer vegetable, flower and herb seeds and to plant ...