This beginner-friendly guide explains how to start a vegetable garden with indirect and direct seed-sowing methods.

Go ahead and make a list of what plants you want to grow and acquire your seeds. It’s still winter, so you should start your ...

Give your garden a head start by starting your seeds indoors. When your last frost date rolls around, you'll have seedlings ...

Each year as the new garden catalogs begin to arrive I start planning which seeds I want to start, and I always check out the perennial plants to see what’s new and exciting for our zone 3 ...

Discover tips for early spring planting, including seed sowing and transplanting advice to ensure a successful garden season.

Lisa Schauer Even if the snow is still falling outside, we can dream of warmer days, and plan for bigger harvests by bringing ...

Here's what it costs to grow your own seedlings instead of buying garden starts from your local nursery or hardware store.

A few hours each week spent outdoors nurturing fruits, flowers and vegetables can provide exercise, stress reduction, vitamin D and a better diet.

Removing weeds as soon as they appear, before their roots fully anchor into the soil, is best for the garden, as well as your back. Always pull or dig up weeds by their roots, then dispose of them in ...

The ideal time to cut back pampas grass is late winter to early spring. 'Cutting back in March or early April will mean that ...

Winter sowing gives seeds the chilling period (stratification) they need to break dormancy and germinate. Seeds sown into ...

Why do some people start seeds for their gardens inside? Since so many plants are available in the spring, this seems to be unnecessary. There are many reasons to start garden plants, whether ...