While most gardeners start seeds in spring, winter sowing can allow you to plant vegetable, herb, and flower seeds a whole lot earlier. Not only does winter sowing extend the growing season and ...
This beginner-friendly guide explains how to start a vegetable garden with indirect and direct seed-sowing methods. Homegrown ...
Tomatoes growing in a garden are covered in beads of water. - Susumu Yoshioka/Getty Images Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are a culinary staple, and for good reason. A tomato offers nearly 20% of ...
Have you heard the old adage “proper planning prevents poor performance?” This adage applies perfectly to establishing food plots for wildlife; you just have to adjust the words, “Proper planting ...
An overarching goal for planting cover crops is to produce as much biomass as possible during the growing window. Higher levels of cover crop biomass will reduce soil erosion, inhibit weed growth, and ...
VIJAYAWADA: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s phone call to a farmer in Krishna district last week to enquire about his “different type” of cultivation of paddy evokes interest among ...
Dry sowing of wheat is the technology to use the available scarce resources, especially water, to their best level. Dry sowing of wheat is in fact a new and improved method of sowing of wheat for ...
Have you ever pulled a store-bought bag of lettuce from the fridge only to find it wilted and long past its prime? Haven’t we all! It’s wasteful and expensive and I decided something needed to change.