As winter wanes and the first signs of spring begin to emerge, many home gardeners find themselves itching to dig into the soil and get their plants growing. But when is the best time to start ...

Knowing how to manage excessive or too little soil moisture will help reduce the amount of damage to the soil during spring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gardening is in full swing, with farmers already planting crops like potatoes, tomatoes and greens – and most have their own ...

"Warm, sunny days in early spring are encouraging after a long winter, but Mother Nature still holds the cards, and I don’t ...

It’s time to prepare your planting equipment for the upcoming spring planting season by working through a thorough repair and maintenance checklist this winter. Attending to these details isn’t mere ...

Farms across North America are well on their way to spring, but they’re not there just yet! It’s a good time to sow seeds of cool-weather annuals and warm-weather annuals that require a long period ...

April, May and early June is a hungry gap in vegetable gardens, with winter crops finished and summer ones pending. Happily, there are crops to sow or plant from mid-summer that grow into the winter, ...

As lettuce plants fade, tomatoes can be planted between the rows. The lettuce serves as living mulch, helping to retain ...

Planting dry beans into spring cover crops could be a measure to protect young plants from damaging weather conditions like wind or hail. Dry beans are susceptible to damage from wind and other ...

A farmer uses a tractor to pull a harrow to perform mechanical weeding as part of cultivation practices using fewer pesticides at a potatoes farm in Saint-Jean-d'Illac, southwestern France, on May 22, ...