Growing carrots from seed is something even beginning gardeners can do successfully. And homegrown carrots come in an assortment of fantastic colors—orange, purple, red, yellow, and white—and are much ...
Speed up germination for some veggies and flowers by soaking seeds before planting.
Carrots have a bad reputation for being tricky to germinate – their seeds are tiny and lightweight, causing them to easily blow off course, or get washed away by water, and their thick outer seed coat ...
While our elementary school science classes may have taught us the basics about seeds and how to plant them, if you’ve gotten into gardening as an adult, you’ve probably figured out that there’s ...
Fielding Questions columnist Don Kinzler explains what can be done about nightcrawlers, when best to fertilize lawns with Milorganite and methods for growing carrots. Nightcrawlers have caused ...
Some seeds, such as lavender and milkweed, require a period of cold before they will sprout. Gardeners can mimic this natural process, called cold stratification, either outdoors or indoors. Indoor ...