While spacious outdoor gardens produce larger harvests, you don't need a sizable garden bed to grow healthy vegetables in a ...

Learn how to successfully start vegetable seeds indoors, from choosing the right plants to providing light and heat, for a ...

The good news is that I, a home gardener who worked for Cooperative Extension and taught gardening classes, have curated a list of the bare-bones things you need to know before you start your first ...

This garden maximizes yields by growing cut-and-come-again crops, such as chard, and by growing vertically on a trellis. Discover these backyard vegetable gardening tips and tricks to save time and ...

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 ...

Marigolds are easy-growing, popular companion flowers in vegetable gardens. They've been shown to reduce the prevalence of ...

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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 ...

Cleaning up your vegetable garden at the end of the season goes a long way toward avoiding pest and disease problems next year. You may have heard that it is a good idea to leave plant material ...

Most vegetable plants need lots of sunlight and nutrients to be productive. If you have less-than-ideal growing conditions in your yard, you may still be able to keep a thriving vegetable garden ...