The middle of March is the time to start growing cool season crops such as peas, sweet peas, lettuce, radishes, cabbage, kale ...

St. Patrick’s Day for gardeners is considered the beginning of the vegetable planting season. Irish potatoes can be planted now. Asparagus and rhubarb are the two perennial vegetables to get ...

Peas have a short period to grow. They only thrive in cool weather and fail in summer heat. They need to be planted in March; May is too late. Soak the peas overnight before planting. Plant them an ...

Get pruning. Most deciduous trees and shrubs (those that lose their leaves in autumn), including fruit trees, should be ...

My neighbor starts planting his vegetable garden a month before I do. I’m worried about frost if I plant too early. What do you recommend?

Grow peas in large pots for shoots or in the ground for peas. Choose hardy, early varieties for sowing in March. Make a ...

Spinach, peas, cilantro, parsley, and root veggies like beets and radish are great plants to grow on cooler days.

Back in the day, my late mother, Alice Rankin, was a master gardener, teaching classes through the county extension office.

Get pruning. Most deciduous trees and shrubs (those that lose their leaves in autumn), including fruit trees, should be pruned before they emerge from dormancy. But hold off on pruning spring bloomers ...

It's best to sow the seeds in October for planting the following spring, but you can also sow in spring. Sweet peas are annuals which are raised from seed to flower the same summer and then die. There ...