Summer can be a challenging time for gardeners, especially when it comes to the excessive heat and high humidity. This is great for tropical plants — but a plethora of plant pathogens, including fungi ...
March is a great time to start summer vegetables for transplants. Seeds started now will be ready to transplant in April or May. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Do you have a gardening question? The UC ...
When the heat goes up, the vegetable garden can go down if gardeners aren’t ready for Pennsylvania’s increasingly sizzling summers. Soil dries faster as temperatures rise, and the heat of 90-degree ...
Winter is the time to hang up your gardening gloves, right? Actually, it's the time to get select vegetable seeds started so ...
July’s hot days can be tough on vegetables. Even when plants are watered in the morning, large-leaved crops like summer squash will be wilted in the hot afternoon sun. Does this mean an extra dose of ...
One soaked cloth cuts disease spread in your vegetable garden, saving plants and time. A fast daily step that steadies yields ...
IT’S JUNE, which means your vegetable garden might finally be filling out with spring crops and starting to look something like an attractive part of your landscape. It also means it’s time to start ...
Many of us got hooked on growing vegetables during the pandemic. Digging in the dirt made us feel better and helped feed our families no matter how intense life got outside our bubble. But we’re in a ...