If you're working with a relatively small yard and want to be able to grow much of your own food, you may need to grow your plants relatively close together. This works fine for many plant ...

Vegetables grown for their underground parts have tasty roots, tubers, rhizomes, or bulbs. These structures are packed with carbohydrates and water for the plants, and deliciousness for us. These ...

Root vegetables thrive in cooler weather, and many gardeners don't realize that this also makes them perfect for fall planting and extended harvesting. "Fall gardening not only takes advantage of warm ...

With the current chill in the air, I started thinking about planting more root vegetables. They grow well in our cool winter months and are delicious singly both hot and cold or combined as ...

Plant pathologist Eric Branch’s interest in sugarbeets is rooted in gardening. The sugarbeet specialist for North Dakota State University Extension and University of Minnesota Extension grew up on a ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley gardeners and farmers! Autumn is just around the corner. Fall is a good time to plant turnips, kale and rutabagas. Many of you may be unfamiliar with the rutabaga (Brassica napus ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! October is here, so cool fall weather cannot be far behind. However, warm temperatures will be hanging on into next week, according to the weather forecast ...

For gardeners, spring is all about planting seeds and starts to give summer crops ample time to reach maturity. But planting doesn't have to end just because summer is in full swing. In fact, there ...

A version of this story first appeared on Missouri’s KBIA. Regenerative agriculture methods, such as cover crops, are one way farmers try to improve the health of their overworked soil. But adopting ...