Here's how to space out your vegetable plants so you don't end up with an overcrowded mess.

Large plants such as cucumbers, squash, and tomatoes require trellis support in the back of your garden, while smaller vegetables like peppers, lettuce, and broccoli can grow in front. Include herbs ...

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As lettuce plants fade, tomatoes can be planted between the rows. The lettuce serves as living mulch, helping to retain ...

If you're planning a vegetable garden this spring, there's one key decision to make first: should you grow in raised beds or ...

There are many vegetables to plant in September, which may come as a surprise. The peak growing season is indeed starting to wind down, but some quick-growing crops will give you harvests as the ...

Corn is an unsuitable companion plant for peppers due to its towering size. Peppers are sun-hungry plants that need as many ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for ...

Establishing winter cover crops after or between harvests can be a great way to preserve soil structure, protect against erosion and produce biomass that feeds the soil ecology. However, if you’re in ...

Most gardeners are still hunched over seed trays under grow lights this April, nursing fragile seedlings indoors, when the ...

A tiny plant’s molecular “velcro” could help crops turn sunlight into food more efficiently. An international team of ...