The first step to a great garden is knowing your planting zone but regardless of where you live, these tips can help.

A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map is based on the average annual ...

Learn the best places to shop for seeds ahead of spring and summer gardening, including where to find wildflower seeds, ...

It should go without saying that this point that you're so much more than a number on a scale, and that many factors affect ...

Dilmore advises sowing cucumbers directly into the soil once it’s thawed in March, and shares another tip, “Many farmers ...

By the time you read this, we will be experiencing our first taste of spring temperatures. Just don’t get too excited.

A guide on what to plant in February. You can start these seeds indoors in most of the zones and have hardy saplings when the ...

It can also be a ton of work -- hauling compost, planting seeds, and battling weeds and pests -- before you get the chance to harvest the fruits (and vegetables) of your labor. There's no way to ...

If your garden isn’t under snow, you can continue to plant and sow all winter. Things grow slowly as the soil is cold but they still grow, providing a lovely continuity of delicious vegetables.

I am following up on my previous column: "Planting depth critical for transplant success" (Napa Valley Register Week of February 6-12, 2025). The focus was mostly on that one aspect of planting ...

The other strawberry tree (Mutingia calabura), with flowers resembling those of the strawberry plant, is also known ... anywhere in the nursery trade. Vegetables. As long as you regularly spread ...