Starting vegetables in a cold frame or under a cloche is a proven way to enjoy earlier homegrown harvests. There are great candidates for this, including peas, beans, lettuce, carrots, spinach, and ...

It can be hard to successfully grow plants and vegetables in many parts of the country around this time of year as temperatures remain low. While there are plants you can sow in the ground now that ...

The groundhog may have seen his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter, but it’s not too early to start thinking about a vegetable garden. Winter may not be over yet, but February can be a good ...

Winter is a rough time for herbaceous plants. Most don’t have the tolerance for the extreme cold in upper North America, and many die back in late winter in the South. But if you have time, you can ...

Extend your edible harvests by planting fast-growing and cold-hardy vegetables right now. Qwart / Getty Images It may feel like the garden is winding down as summer days grow shorter, but it doesn’t ...

Here we are in October. How did that happen? Wasn’t it just a few days ago we were melting in the heat? This is the time of year gardeners start thinking about that first freeze of the fall season.

As soon as the days get longer and the slightest bit of green reappears on the trees, I enter my gardening era. I’m not blessed with a naturally green thumb, but over the years, I've learned a lot ...