Set your plants up for success with these tips and tricks.

Strategically use certain vegetables in your garden to naturally deter pests and enhance your harvest without pesticides.

Thanks to the long growing season in the South, you can plant a cool-season crop like carrots twice, once in the fall and again in very early spring. Carrot seeds will germinate in 10 to 21 days and ...

At this point in the season, there are a few things left to do to help transition your garden to winter and to prepare for next season.

Carrot flies lay eggs and their larvae feast on the root vegetables, destroying the crops. But there are preventative and ...

If you're a beginner gardener, these are the easiest vegetables to grow, according to gardening pros.

The blessing of warmer, drier weather these past few days has tempted us to get in the garden to dig. And planting a nice crop of carrots tops many a gardener’s list. Nothing can beat the sweetness ...

Some edible plants need extra help to warm up or cool down during extreme temperatures, and you can DIY many simple solutions ...

Susan R. of Santa Rosa asks: I love carrots and have tried several times to grow my own, but with no success. Can you provide some growing tips and any secrets to growing sweet, delicious carrots?

I've read in several garden books about how carrots weren't originally orange. The first carrots cultivated were purple or yellow. Orange came much later. But how, and why? None of the books I read ...

Autumn in our area is a subtle thing. September brings more northerlies and the temperatures begin to fall. This morning on my screen porch it was a very nice 72 degrees. As well, the scarlet buckeyes ...