DENVER — It drives me nuts to see commercials where people pretending to garden pull plants out of their pots by the stems. This is wrong and can potentially damage the stems at the point where they ...

We have been planting lettuce at various times through the Fall and now is a great time to check in and see if there is any to harvest. A good strategy with lettuce (and carrots) is to plant some ...

When I moved to central Virginia 25 years ago, my gardening neighbors believed that lettuce couldn’t be grown in winter. I set out to prove that we could indeed produce a continuous supply of salad ...

It will be a month yet before we can plant the veggie garden. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, squash, beans and corn are not frost hardy and will need to wait until after May 15 before planting. But ...

Locally known as salad patta and scientifically known as Lactuca sativa, lettuce belongs to the family Asteraceae. It is a relatively inexpensive green coloured leaf to add to sandwiches, burgers and ...

ABIKO, JAPAN—The quality of agricultural seedlings is important to crop growth and yield after transplantation. Good quality seedlings exhibit characteristics such as thick stems, thick leaves, dark ...