A beet seed is capable of sprouting into as many as eight seedlings. This is bad news for gardeners who carefully space each seed within its row. Most table beet seeds, unless the variety is listed as ...

Beets are commonly grown for their bulbous roots, but their tops can also be harvested for greens, and they are an excellent source of Vitamin A as well as calcium. Beet juice is sometimes used in ...

Probably one of the most difficult chores in the garden is thinning the seedlings, and therefore, it is the most often neglected task. If you are like me, you hate to destroy anything good growing in ...

Give your seeds the best possible start and learn how to fix common errors that stunt growth, weaken plants, and prevent crops and flowers from flourishing.

Years ago I received a letter — yes, I wrote this column in pre-email days, too — from a reader who wanted me to know she had planted some very special beet seeds, as each developed three or four ...

Ah, the first weeks of summer! This is the time of year to thin out those vegetable crops that you started directly from seeds right in the garden. Unless you were exceedingly careful and deliberate, ...

Beets (Beta vulgaris) are one of those vegetables ideally suited to the late-summer garden for harvesting in the fall. While we plant them now in August to mature before the first frost (somewhere ...

A. Gradually is best if you have time to return to the garden every couple of days as the plants grow larger. Thin them so that the leaves from a single plant barely touch neighboring leaves. The ...

Beets (Beta vulgaris) are one of those vegetables ideally suited to the late-summer garden for harvesting in the fall. While we plant them now in August to mature before the first frost (somewhere ...