February has arrived and as a vegetable gardener, you are likely ordering seeds and making plans for your garden for the coming growing season. One factor to consider when planning your vegetable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When planning a vegetable garden for next year, one of the first thoughts that may come to mind after choosing which plants to ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

February is whizzing by and before we know it, planting season will be upon us. Avid gardeners have been poring over seed catalogs, inventorying their home seed libraries and planning this year’s ...

Is crop rotation in a vegetable garden necessary? What is the best way to do this? Crop rotation is very important in maintaining soil fertility, allowing more efficient use of those nutrients. Crops ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Today’s topic is crop rotation. Basically you don’t want to plant the same crop in the same area every year. Rotating your crops throughout the garden space will help maintain ...

SAUK COUNTY GARDENER Jeannie Manis Sauk County Master Gardeners Association “There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has ...

Vegetable plants are mostly unnaturally productive. Extensive breeding compels them to yield fruits and vegetative parts that are bigger, better and more abundant that what their ancestors produced.

You want bigger, healthier harvests, not a crowded bed full of stressed plants. Planting everywhere there’s a spare inch wastes light, nutrients, and water — and it invites pests and disease. Place ...

The techniques used on the farm can be easily applied to home gardens, especially by those wanting to grow their own vegetables ...

When planning a vegetable garden for next year, one of the first thoughts that may come to mind after choosing which plants to grow is where in the garden they should be planted. Accounting for water, ...

For success in next year’s veggie garden, the smart gardener considers not just the basics, like light and water needs, but what was planted in the space the year before. Crop rotation is all ...