Many people think of spring as the best time to plant vegetables, but if you ask rooftop gardener James Mastaler, fall is actually the perfect time to start! “Fall is a surprisingly wonderful time to ...

Check your local freeze date to choose vegetables for October planting. Fast-maturing cool-season crops are ideal for late fall harvests. Hardy plants like garlic and kale go dormant in winter and ...

Fall is spinach's season. Spring-planted spinach bolts. Fall spinach thrives. Swiss chard remains a real trooper and just plain pretty. Bok choy and Chinese cabbage grow fast and taste best in cool ...

Planting fall spinach is an excellent way to enjoy fresh greens for many months. Unlike spring-planted spinach, which tends to bolt quickly in the warm weather, planting a fall crop can give you ...

School's back in session, the days are getting shorter, and fall decor is already tempting us from store shelves. If you don't have Labor Day plans this year, make it a gardening weekend for planting ...

Tom Mashour plants fall vegetables from seed, and Mr. D. checks in on the progress of the corn. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Master Gardener Tom Mashour demonstrates how ...

Root vegetables are a great thing to have in the garden during our cool season. Since much of the plant is underground, and ...

As vegetable gardeners, we schedule part of our garden lives on two important dates of the year: the date after which it is safe to plant and the date we will likely lose our plants. Of course, I am ...