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 ...

For many home growers, gardeners, and farmers, spring is a busy time in the gardening year. In the period running up to and immediately after the last frost date in your area, you might be sowing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Budding gardeners who can’t face the elements of winter could be considering starting off with some seeds indoors. You don’t need ...

Just because the winter days are cold and dreary doesn’t mean the work to improve wildlife habitat on your property has to stop. In fact, now is a perfect time for a wide range of habitat projects.

Sowing seeds in pots at home is one of the easiest ways to start gardening, even in small spaces. With the right soil, ...

With the chaos of the New Year and the sudden frosty weather January brings, it can be hard to find the motivation to get into the garden. Which is why finding effective shortcuts for tasks like seed ...

Having a good April seed-starting plan will eventually provide harvests for market or food for the people on the farm. The most important factors to consider are the local climate and the time ...

Donna Foster, who lives in East Long Beach near the CSULB campus, emailed me concerning a sunny slope, nearly bare, that needs planting. She was thinking of broadcasting seeds and wanted to know my ...